Sedona, AZ: The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the exclusive Arizona premiere screening of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" — directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring an Oscar-caliber ensemble cast — on Tuesday, September 18. It will be the feature presentation at 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres.
This screening of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" marks the first stop for the film following its high-profile premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival just days earlier. The film features a cast of the who's who in the Oscar world: Academy Award winners Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei, and Academy Award nominees Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris.
"This is a very big film for us, featuring a big-name director and star-studded cast," according to Patrick Schweiss, the film festival's director. "We are getting the film six weeks before it opens in Los Angeles and New York, so we really are some of the first people in the United States to see this incredibly powerful story."
Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all – itself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep.
Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman's trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons.
A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of "The Killing" and Lumet's own "The Anderson Tapes," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.
