American Heist - Trailer

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Years ago, two brothers lived on the wrong side of the law. When James (Hayden Christensen) was set to go to jail, his brother Frankie (Adrien Brody) took the fall instead. Now, James has turned his life around and is preparing to launch his own legitimate business. When Frankie is released from jail, he fall back in with the wrong crowd, and ends up homeless and desperate for money. With so much debt to his brother, James is forced to stray back into the criminal underworld to pull of the heist to end all heists, and hopefully get his brother onto the right track once this is all over.

'American Heist' is a 2014 film from Armenian Director Sarik Andreasyan and screenwriter Raul Inglis. The American-Russian independent action film is based on the 1959 film 'The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery', staring Steve McQueen, and went into Principle Photography in New Orleans, Louisiana, in June 2013. The film premiered in Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11th September 2014, before moving on to the New Orleans Film Festival on 22nd October of the same year. 'American Heist' is set for release in the US on 24th July 2015.