The Town

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Based on the novel Prince of thieves by Chuck Hogan.
Videodisc release of the 2010 motion picture.
Special features include Ben's Boston, The real people of the town, Ben Affleck: director & actor, director's commentary.
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper.
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves.
DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital Surround 5.1; widescreen.
Contents: Prince of thieves.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

ok submitted by sandylib123 on July 13, 2011, 2:13pm it was ok

Fantastic submitted by ljq on July 16, 2011, 12:43pm Blakey Lievely is the best

Okay submitted by emjane on July 14, 2012, 9:14pm The Town takes place in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, a location rife with crime, particularly bank and armored truck robberies. Doug (Affleck) and a group of his buddies make their living by performing these robberies, and the movie opens will the group robbing a bank managed by Claire (Rebecca Hall). Though it’s a little rocky, the guys eventually end up pulling off the robbery, but not without killing a guard and taking Claire as an incredibly temporary hostage. However, more problems are to come. This robbery causes FBI Agent Frawley (Jon Hamm) to begin to seek out the guys. Additionally, Claire lives in the same neighborhood as Doug and when the two meet at a Laundromat, they begin to fall in love (Doug recognizes Claire, she does not recognize him).

This relationship was the thing that bothered me about The Town. I couldn’t understand how Doug would allow himself to spend enough time with Claire to fall for her, and I also didn’t get how they fell in love so fast. I know The Town is an action movie, and wasting time on scenes developing a romantic relationship is probably not what the audience wants, but it was this (and, oddly enough, not the robberies and violence) that kept the movie from being believable to me.

I appreciated that The Town did not have distinct lines drawn between good and bad characters. Typically, you’d be led to root for either the FBI agent or the robbers, but The Town did no such leading. Sure, the robbers were wrong to steal and kill, but the movie showed the personalities behind their tough-guy characters and explained how they got in that situation. Conversely, it was clear that Agent Frawley was just doing his job—he wasn’t crooked, he wasn’t malicious. I liked that characters weren’t cut and dry and that I was able to choose for myself who to support. However, instead of picking a side, I found myself not cheering for either one; I just didn’t care.

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Hm submitted by c_zhang on July 5, 2019, 12:46am It was okay. The relationships portrayed were kind of sketchy and unrealistic.

average submitted by yufamily on August 13, 2019, 6:05pm Nice action movie

f submitted by kscapellie on July 11, 2020, 3:49pm nice action movie interesting

Love and betrayal/ cops and robbers submitted by mandevil on July 1, 2021, 10:00am Ben Affleck is the head of a team of robbers. Jeremy Renner is the hotheaded wild card. Ben and Jeremy grew up as almost brothers. The irish mob in Charlestown is run by Pete Postlewaite, who gives a great chilling performance. Rebecca Hall is a potential witness. Ben befriends Rebecca in order to learn what she knows about the robbers and assess her threat, then falls for het. Jon Hamm is the FBI agent out to catch the bad guys. Blake Lively is Jeremy’s sister and Ben’s sometime lover. Great performances!