Ben Affleck directed this new thriller, co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard, and stars as Doug MacRay, a seasoned bank robber.

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With Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Dan Aykroyd as a bellowing Canadian press lord, and Stockard Channing as the American revivalist, Mrs.

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Affleck, who also co-wrote the script with Aaron Stockard, has cast his younger brother Casey as Kenzie, with Michelle Monaghan (from "Mission: Impossible III") as Genarro.

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Betsy Stockard, a local councilwoman who was the first black politician to ask the school district to lighten up, changed her mind after seeing the video.

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The odd empathy that develops between the privileged heroine, Ouisa (Stockard Channing), and the young hustler (Will Smith) is moving because it emerges, unexpectedly, out of their radically different but equally ingenious strategies for manipulating experience.

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Its lovers simply decouple and drift apart in zero gravity. (Redford winces to show he cares.) Squandered in supporting roles are Kate Nelligan, Stockard Channing, and Joe Mantegna, whose power suits seem to wear him.

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