daily stream: crime under cover of giant Thanksgiving balloons
2011’s *Tower Heist* is on Hulu in the US, Prime in the UK
It’s Thanksgiving weekend in the US, and I’ve been recommending some appropriately themed flicks this week. Apologies to my non-American readers, but I make this promise: I won’t share any turkeys, and all the films will have more going for them than just a big dinner.
When the working-class schmoes who keep a ritzy Manhattan residential building running efficiently — led by Ben Stiller as the building manager — discover they’ve been defrauded out of their pensions by one of the residents, a Wall Street sleaze (Alan Alda) they should never have trusted with their very hard-earned money, they decide to rob him of his millions as literal payback.
There’s no big turkey dinner at all in the 2011 crime comedy Tower Heist, but revenge does get served up cold and sweet: the ingenious finale, the heist itself, is set among and around New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The arrogance of the rich and powerful rarely gets such a tasty smack.
US: stream on Hulu; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
See Tower Heist at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
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