Thursday, November 12, 2009

Maiden Heist: The movie

I rented a netflix movie based upon the cast alone and was very rewarded. This movie is a sleeper and unexpected in every way. If you aren't over 50 you might not appreciate it because it deals with three characters nearing retirement age who are guards at an art museum. Each of these Guards doesn't know each other at first but each over the years of guardianship has fallen in love with a different work of art at the museum. The thought of being separated from that work of art is impossible for each of them to imagine living without much like a wife or very important lover. So when their art pieces are to be shipped to Denmark without them, they find each other. What happens then is the fun part.

Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and William H. Macy are the three guards and if you like extremely eccentric but good acting you might love this sleeper of a movie. It is a comedy drama.

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