Life of Crime

Sly, cleverly plotted...a fitting memorial to Elmore Leonard...one of the most faithful of the many adaptations of the author's work.
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety

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Life of Crime

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel "The Switch," LIFE OF CRIME is a dark caper comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Will Forte, Mark Boone Junior, Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins. The wife (Aniston) of a corrupt real estate developer (Robbins) is kidnapped by two common criminals (Bey and Hawkes) who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and offshore 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 that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.
R
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Daniel Schechter
Cast
Jennifer Aniston, Yasiin Bey, Isla Fisher, Will Forte
FEATURED REVIEW
Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

Daniel Schechter's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch was the last movie with which the novelist was intimately involved, and the last film of this year's Toronto film festival. The final spot on the schedule is not always the most coveted, but this is an unexpectedly winning take ...

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