Synopsis
Watch Going in Style (1979) online on iFILM — a crime comedy-drama and the debut feature of Martin Brest, who later directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, and Scent of a Woman. What he made first is quieter than any of those, and more melancholy.
Joe, Al, and Willie are three pensioners splitting a cramped New York apartment on Social Security checks. The routine is fixed: a park bench, pigeons, the daily paper. Joe breaks from the script and proposes robbing a Manhattan bank in broad daylight — less for the money than for something to actually happen. George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg — the founder of the Actors Studio — play these men without a single sentimental shortcut or easy laugh.
It is not really a heist film. It is about people the city has quietly retired and what they choose to do with the time they have left. Stream Going in Style online on iFILM.
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