The lookout [blu-ray dvd] / Birnbaum/Barber ; Laurence Mark Productions ; Miramax Films ; Parkes/MacDonald Productions ; Spyglass Entertainment ; produced by Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Laurence Mark, Walter F. Parkes ; written by Scott Frank ; directed by Scott Frank.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Albert Watson, Alex Borstein. Special features: "Sequencing 'The lookout'" featurette; "Behind the mind of Chris Pratt"; audio commentary with writer/director and director of photography.
Summary:
An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. He is unable to have meaningful job and he goes to work as a night cleaning man in a bank. He comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. Confused, but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. When he realizes he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry.
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