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Information
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 99 min.
- Director
- Scott Frank
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 53,750
- Checks
- 2,738
- Favs
- 111
- Dislikes
- 29
- Favs/checks
- 4.1% (1:25)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
In The Lookout, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a young man you suffered brain damage in a car accident and today has trouble putting things in sequence (memories, tasks, etc.). He nevertheless has a job at a small bank as night janitor. A gang of would-be bank robbers (led by Matthew Goode) try to manipulate him into helping them pull off a heist at that very bank, which of course leads to complications. Can Gordon-Levitt's character get the better of them with his condition? The heist and its consequences are, in a way, secondary to the film's true focus, a character study on a very specific kind of brain damage, and how to live with it. Gordon-Levitt is, no surprise, excellent, and he's well paired with Jeff Daniels as his blind (but perceptive) roommate. Sometimes you'd like one movie to get out of the other's way, but generally, it works. 6 years 4 months ago -
Amuda
Story was pretty good, Joseph Gordon-Levitt acting fantastic as usual. The rest was okay. 12 years 8 months ago