Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySidney Lumet
Written byKelly Masterson
Produced by
  • Paul Parmar
  • Michael Cerenzie
  • Brian Linse
  • William S. Gilmore
Starring
CinematographyRon Fortunato
Edited byTom Swartwout
Music byCarter Burwell
Production
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Distributed byThinkFilm
Release dates
  • September 6, 2007 (2007-09-06) (Deauville)
  • October 26, 2007 (2007-10-26) (United States)
Running time
117 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$18 million[3]
Box office$25 million[2]

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 American crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet.[4] The film was written by Kelly Masterson, and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. The title comes from the Irish saying: "May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you're dead". The film unfolds in a nonlinear narrative, repeatedly going back and forth in time, with some scenes shown repeatedly from differing points of view. It was the last film directed by Lumet before his death in 2011.

The film appeared on 21 critics' end-of-the-year top ten lists indexed by Metacritic and was selected as one of 2007's ten best American films by the American Film Institute, at the 2007 AFI Awards.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Nat Segaloff, Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors, Bear Manor Media 2013 p 176-178
  4. ^ Berkvist, Robert (April 9, 2011). "Sidney Lumet, Director of American Film Classics, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
  5. ^ Afi.com Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine; AFI Awards 2007, American Film Institute. Retrieved October 7, 2012.