Thick as Thieves (2009 film)
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| Directed by | Mimi Leder |
| Produced by | Randall Emmett Danny Lerner Lori McCreary Les Weldon |
| Written by | Ted Humphrey |
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Morgan Freeman Antonio Banderas |
| Music by | Atli Örvarsson |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Edited by | Martin Nicholson |
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| Distributed by | First Look International |
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April 17, 2009 (United States) |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States Germany |
| Language | English Russian Dutch |
| Budget | $25 million |
Thick as Thieves (also known as The Code) is a 2009 American/German action crime/heist film directed by Mimi Leder, starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, and Radha Mitchell. The film was released direct-to-DVD on February 16, 2009 in the United Kingdom, on April 17, 2009 in the United States and on October 18, 2010 in Germany.
Set in New York City, veteran thief Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas) to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, over the debt before they could complete the plan. Martin is unsure of Ripley, but Ripley's goddaughter, Alexandra Korolenko (Radha Mitchell), who is also Victor's daughter, convinces him otherwise, although Ripley does not like that the two are getting close. Ripley tells Martin the plan, that they are going to steal from a Russian museum that has been smuggling Russian treasures into the country and bribing the NYPD with large donations and expensive equipment. The two infiltrate a party at the museum posing as cops, with Ripley as Lt. Weber (Robert Forster), a cop who has a particular vendetta against Ripley, to gather information about their vault.
The Russian mob, led by Nicky Petrovitch (Rade Šerbedžija), grow impatient with Ripley and kidnap Alexandra, telling them they must steal two Fabergé eggs from the Russian Museum in order to get her back, or she dies. When the duo get into the vaults of the museum with the eggs, Martin reveals he is an undercover cop from Miami planted by Weber to catch Ripley, leaves Ripley locked in the vault and informs Weber, while taking the eggs to the Russian mobster to free Alexandra. After Alexandra is released Martin is forced to meet with Nicky who reveals that the eggs they have stolen are made of wood (like the Karelian Birch egg). Meanwhile, Weber and his squad enter the museum, but are detained by the security guards due to Martin telling the guards he was a cop as he escaped.
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