Life of Crime, a prequel to Elmore Leonard‘s Jackie Brown, which Quentin Tarantino adapted into a feature film back in 1997, premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and didn’t exactly come away with the highest of marks.
[amz asin=”B000FC140I” size=”small”]Directed and written by Daniel Schechter and based on Leonard’s “The Switch”, the film is described as dark caper comedy in which the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a corrupt real estate developer (Tim Robbins) is kidnapped by two common criminals (yasiin bey and John Hawkes), who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he’d actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and plot twists. Mark Boone Junior, Will Forte and Isla Fisher co-star.
Roadside is set to release the film in theaters and on VOD August 29. Check out the trailer and a few pictures below.
