The poster for The Town has gone online and it’s certainly eye-catching. It needs to catch your eye long enough for you to read the tagline “Welcome to the Bank Robbery Capital of America,” to understand that it’s a movie about bank robbers. If you don’t read that tagline, you may be left thinking that Ben Affleck is in a really creepy remake of Nuns on the Run.
Hit the jump to check out the poster and the official synopsis. The Town will be screening at both the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. It opens nationwide on September 17th.
Poster via Apple.
Here’s the official synopsis for The Town:
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name… and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug….not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.
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Reminds me of The Dark Knight.
That is a very very good thing.
I expect it to be better than The Dark Knight. That is a very very good thing also.
Loved the town,excellent movie Heat and The Departed in one.
Thought this movie started off good but it went way out in left field when Ben started stalkin the girl he tramatized , what kind of wierdow does that. He just did everything in his power to give off his position. when it was over and all the smoke cleared I thought this was a terrible movie. Ben Affleck needs to stay away from the directors chair. He is obiously a egomaniiac who makes theirself the main character in their own movie. I was hoping that he would get killed but his whole crew took the fall and this punk was the last man standing. Must be that punk bens fantasy to rob banks and be a tough guy and court the girl you tramitize pure garbage this movie has nothing on heat or the departed This movie sucked!
Totally agree with you adrian. I stopped watching after he stalked her to the laundry, then entered it and started walking towards her and sat down. That I think is a wanton shortcut to the egocentric romance Ben Affleck wanted to ensue in his movies.
I’m not a great lover of Ben Affleck, in fact i hate most of his stuff for the very reason you gave for him not going near a directors chair. I gave this time because it had Jon Hamm in it and the movie seemed to be Affleck proof.
Anyways I’ll know better next time.