Tower Heist

Tower Heist (2011)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and Casey Affleck
Directed by: Brett Ratner
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Grade: A

This movie was quite funny. It could have done without a lot of the raunchy humor, it was still good. Josh Kovacks (Stiller) is the manager of the Tower, an upscale apartment building where an apartment costs millions of dollars a month. Josh is great at his job, making sure all of the tenants are happy and all of his workers are doing their jobs. What he doesn't know is that the Tower's richest tenant, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), an investment banker, has been arrested for fraud. At first, Josh thinks this must be a mistake. He soon finds out, however, that, when Shaw said he was going to invest all of the worker's paychecks, he really just stole all of the money. After Josh is fired, he decides that he needs to get the money back. Josh, along with a former tenant named Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick), the Tower's former concierge Charlie (Affleck), a new worker to the Tower named Enrique Dev’Reaux (Michael Pena), a maid named Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe), and a petty thief from Josh's past, Slide (Murphy). As the team plans the difficult heist, they also have to make sure that suspicious FBI agent Claire Denham (Tea Leoni) doesn't catch them in the act.