Lookout, The (2007) Review
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99 min – Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a promising high school athlete, has a nice future ahead of him until one night he makes the foolish decision to drive into the night with his headlights off. Chris is left with a brain injury that results in shot-term memory loss and is forced to write everything down in a notebook. He soon gets a job as a janitor in a local bank where he meets Gary (Matthew Goode). Gary befriends him and ultimately lets him in on a plan to rob the bank.
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At various times over the last decade, David Fincher, Sam Mendes, and Michael Mann were attached to direct Scott Frank's screenplay for The Lookout, about a brain-damaged high school hockey stud who's smooth-talked by distant acquaintances into robbing ...read the complete Lookout, The review at Village Voice
The genre sometimes offhandedly called kiddie noir hasn’t produced a great many successes—remember Judd Nelson’s “Blue City” or Anthony Michael Hall’s “Out of Bounds”?—but in “The Lookout” it has one. Partially that’s because it ...read the complete Lookout, The review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives the best performance of his career and Jeff Daniels is equally outstanding in writer/director Scott Frank’s The Lookout, an immensely entertaining and mesmerizing story about a guy with brain damage who becomes involved in a ...read the complete Lookout, The review at About.com (Rebecca Murray)
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With the rise of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, the ever popular crime and heist films genres have grown more outlandish, as seen in the baffling... read more »
The Lookout is an instant Neo-noir classic. The kind of film that you can tell everyone involved took a full swing at in making. Career acting... read more »
One of my favorite movies of all-time. This is about a guy with a head injury from a car accident that gets lured into a bank heist. Joseph Lewitt... read more »
2008 - Golden Trailer Awards: Nominated - Best Wildposts
2008 - Independent Spirit Awards: Won - Best First Feature
2007 - Satellite Awards: Nominated - Best Film Editing
2007 - Satellite Awards: Nominated - Best Motion Picture, Drama
2007 - Satellite Awards: Nominated - Best Original Score
2007 - Satellite Awards: Nominated - Best Screenplay, Original
2007 - Casting Society of America, USA: Nominated - Best Feature Film Casting - Drama






