The Score (2001 film)
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| Directed by | Frank Oz |
| Produced by | Gary Foster Lee Rich |
| Written by | Daniel E. Taylor Kario Salem Lem Dobbs Scott Marshall Smith |
| Starring |
Robert De Niro Edward Norton Angela Bassett Marlon Brando |
| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | Rob Hahn |
| Edited by | Richard Pearson |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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July 13, 2001 |
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Running time
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124 minutes |
| Budget | $68 million |
| Box office | $113,579,918 |
The Score is an American-Canadian crime thriller film directed by Frank Oz, and stars Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett and Marlon Brando in his final film role. It was the only time that Brando and De Niro appeared onscreen together (although both played the same role of Don Vito Corleone, in The Godfather saga, they never appeared together). The screenplay was based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from a story by Daniel E. Taylor and Emmy-winner Kario Salem.
After nearly being caught on a routine burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells decides the time has finally come to retire from his criminal activities. He is enticed into taking one final score by his fence Max. The job, worth a $4 million payoff to Nick, is to steal a sceptre, a French national treasure stored in the ultra-secure basement of the Montréal Customs House. The sceptre was discovered by Customs agents being smuggled into the US through Canada. Max introduces Nick to Jack Teller (Edward Norton), an ambitious thief who has infiltrated the Customs House and gained information regarding security by pretending to be an intellectually disabled janitor.
Nick's trusted associate Steven hacks into the Custom House's security system to obtain the bypass codes, allowing them to temporarily manipulate the alert protocols of the system during the heist. Steven is caught, however, by a corrupt systems administrator who extorts Nick for $50,000 for the information. More complications arise when they are forced to move up their timetable after the Customs House becomes aware of the true value of the sceptre and adds extra closed-circuit television cameras and infrared detectors to monitor the basement room while preparing to return it to its rightful owners.
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