The Town (2010) is a gripping crime thriller directed by and starring Ben Affleck, alongside Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall.
Set in Charlestown, Boston, the story follows Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), a skilled bank robber who falls in love with Claire (Rebecca Hall), the woman he once held hostage during a heist. As Doug struggles to leave his criminal life behind, his loyalty to his crewโespecially the volatile Jem (Jeremy Renner)โpulls him deeper into danger.
This powerful drama blends action, suspense, and romance while exploring themes of loyalty, redemption, and the cost of freedom. With intense heist sequences and emotional depth, The Town remains one of the best crime dramas of the 2010s.
๐ญ Full Cast & Crew:
Ben Affleck as Doug MacRay
Jeremy Renner as James โJemโ Coughlin
Rebecca Hall as Claire Keesey
Jon Hamm as FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley
Blake Lively as Krista Coughlin
Pete Postlethwaite as Fergus โFergieโ Colm
Chris Cooper as Stephen MacRay
Titus Welliver as Dino Ciampa
Directed by: Ben Affleck Written by: Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, Aaron Stockard Based on: Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan
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00:00This love story begins with a group of robbers discussing their plan.
00:04They are wearing scary masks and analyzing all the vital information before doing the heist.
00:08They all go inside the bank and put everyone down and make everyone take off their shoe.
00:12They have a closer look at the timing and tell an employee to do the unlocking.
00:16She is scared, but finally is able to unlock the main door.
00:20Suddenly, all the robbers hears a knock on the door.
00:23They all decide to pack everything up, put gasoline everywhere and decide to leave.
00:27One of the robber takes the women as a hostage and we see her left at the front of the beach.
00:31In the next scene, we can see the same bank and police, detectives and media is all over it.
00:36They believe that the robber were pretty smart to wait for the timer to expire and left no traces behind.
00:42More than 50 people eyewitnesses them getting out of the van.
00:45This is one of the robbers, they all gather to talk about the women they kidnapped.
00:49She lives 4 blocks away and they will see her literally every single day, which can be a big problem for them.
00:54Now they will need to find out if she is going to keep her mouth shut.
00:57Later on, she is being talked by the police and there she tell them that if she spoke anything, they will take her life away.
01:04Agent explains that, he does know, where they really are, he had done all the calculations.
01:09Agent gives her his card in case she need any help.
01:11Two of the robbers comes inside a house to meet Michael.
01:14While waiting, they start to argue about their past on how they almost got away.
01:19Finally a man gives them their bag full of cash, which they split up.
01:22It was time for them to spend the money on gambling, clubs and drinks.
01:26Robbers ends up sitting in a bar, where they enjoy their drinks.
01:30There Doug sits with a woman, there she explains how a Jamaican man started the fight with her.
01:34He reveals that he is Mrs. Things They Used to Do.
01:37Later Doug is approached by the same girl who arrives back at home drunk and they start to have romantic moments.
01:43Doug is not able to sleep at night, so he exercise while thinking of his past, he used to be a normal guy back then.
01:48He is also a part of a private group, where they share their experiences with each other.
01:53We can see Doug later at the laundry place, where he sees the same girl who was kidnapped, she asks him for a change, but he does not really have any.
02:00Seeing this shirt reminds her of the experiences and she starts to cry.
02:04Doug try to ask her and help her out.
02:06There Doug asks her out and offers to buy a drink for her.
02:09Right after, we see a few agents trying to arrest someone, while Guy's girlfriend try to help him escape.
02:14They had found lots of stuff in their apartment.
02:17Meanwhile, Doug is exploring about the women.
02:20He gets to know many things about her and it just gets more interesting.
02:23Next they walk into a small boat and decide to go there.
02:26Inside the boat, he opens a bottle of champagne and they enjoy it, like it was some kind of date.
02:31She start to ask his thoughts about the bank robber and he explains that he wanted to be like those guys.
02:36He does not have much to say about it, other than a self-made story.
02:39His friend asks him if they need to remove the girl from the earth, but Doug suggests that it is fine and they don't need to do it.
02:46Later while talking to agent, he asks her on a date, but she reveals that she is seeing someone already.
02:51At night, Doug comes to meet the girl whose name is Claire Cassie.
02:55Finally she tells Doug about her bizarre experience when they all blindfolded her and left her at the beach.
03:00She thought she is going to jump over the cliff, but when she walked a bit further she was relieved to feel the water.
03:05She tells him if she heard their voice, she will defiantly recognize them.
03:08Later Claire takes Doug to meet her colleague, who was injured badly back in the bank.
03:13When she tell him that she did saw the tattoo on the back of a robber's head, to which he suggests her to wait before telling this to the agents.
03:20Before leaving her to at her house, he gets to know that some people actually tried to harm her for some reason.
03:25Not wasting any time, he takes his friend to one of the local dealer who comes back with his box and tells them about the culprit.
03:31They wait outside after knocking the door.
03:33There they end up beating him a little and make him learn a lesson, where his mate James end up showing his face and leaves right after.
03:40Claire and Doug meets up in a broad daylight, where he explains that one day his father came up to him and told him that his mother left.
03:46He looked after her for quite a while, but gave up in the end.
03:50Agents took their picture and believes they are just a small criminals or gang members.
03:53They got all the information about them, but they have no proof yet.
03:56At the lunch, their emotional bonding was really getting better, suddenly James comes to meet him.
04:02Where he meets her, but this makes Doug really uncomfortable.
04:05He introduced himself to her and asked where they met, but James was showing a face of big disappointment.
04:10Later at his apartment James is more angrier than ever and shouting at Doug, for dating the only women in the world who working with the agents.
04:17Doug explains he's got a plan, but this was unbelievable by James.
04:21At the prison, Doug goes and meets someone whose name was Steve, who was his father.
04:25Doug suggests him to not mess up things inside the prison and he reveals him about taking a trip.
04:30He finally asks her why did he not look for her since his mother left.
04:34He explains she was not worth looking for and no better than a big mess.
04:37Doug did not hear the answer he was expecting.
04:40Later, while in his apartment Doug and Claire start to kiss and have romantic moments.
04:44All the crew members are ready to rob the next bank and getting ready for the execution of the plan.
04:49They put a few grandma masks to cover their faces and proceed to rob the small bank van.
04:53One of the guys end up screwing up the plan, because of this made them to take down one of the cops.
04:59But this does not stop here, they start to take down more and more cops to be able to escape the location.
05:04Agents gets a call and immediately give commands to close the bridge.
05:08In the heat of the situation robber are also smart and does not drive towards the bridge after leaving the cops behind.
05:13After leaving the car they find a cop sitting right outside, but he move his face away due to obvious reason.
05:18All the cops arrest all the suspects on their work locations.
05:22The cop tell one of them to read the dialogue to match the one they recorded.
05:26Next, the agent is not there to tell him to cooperate, but tells him that soon he will not be alive.
05:31He is pretty sure that the robbers are all these guys, but they still got no evidence of it, just assumptions and Doug leaves.
05:38Doug is again with Claire and gifts her a ring.
05:40She reveals that she left her job, to which he says he also want to change his life so what if they do it together?
05:45Claire asks him about the guys she told him about once and few days ago, they got shot.
05:50To which he suggests that, it is all karma.
05:53Agent John comes by Claire and gives her a full list of suspects, seeing Doug there she was really shocked.
05:59He suggests her getting a lawyer.
06:01In a few days, James and Doug finally know that this is getting bigger and they need to do something about it.
06:06They argue for a good minute, where they also fight about James' sister, who's got a child of Doug, but yet not so sure about it.
06:12Doug wants to leave, but James want him to stay in the city.
06:16He goes to his arms dealer and ask for help, but he does not want to deal with Doug anymore.
06:20Not only that, but he also explains to Doug that he can get him in trouble just like he did to his father.
06:25He reveals that many years ago his father also said no to him, he got her mother addicted and she ended up taking her own life by hanging herself.
06:33While he was looking all around the town for her, to which Doug really want to take some action, but he cannot.
06:38He also mentioned about Claire, to which Doug goes there and try to explain everything to her, but she is tired of it.
06:44Claire wants him to get out of her house so he leaves.
06:46He goes to a dealer and gets high.
06:48He comes back to the dealer and accept to do whatever he want him to do, but nothing should happen to Claire or the kid.
06:54He finally reveals the truth to Claire that he robbed few banks and never took anyone's life himself.
06:59The big arms dealer telling the gang their whole plan, which was probably the biggest heist of all.
07:04At night, the agent comes and sits beside James' sister and proceed to talk to her about Doug and her past.
07:10He makes her realize that he is an agent.
07:12He also reveals that Doug is seeing someone else as well.
07:15Agents are already waiting at the truck for the obvious and almost caught him, before they realize that this was a dummy van.
07:21Back in the apartment, Krista and Doug start to fight because she knows that he is leaving with Claire, but she wants to leave with him instead.
07:28But this does not work out in her favor and he push her out of the apartment.
07:31While the plan has been executed, where Doug and James are on their way, Trista is being asked about Doug's plan, to which she start to cry before she reveal anything.
07:39Doug and James play being cops and act so real that even the security guards could not tell the difference and ends up getting tied by them.
07:46They take huge chunk of money from the police department and proceed to get away with it.
07:50After sneaking from the cops, they finally are able to make it up to the van.
07:55Doug is a bit surprised to see that no one's around, but see the whole police force outside of the building.
08:00In the heat of the moment one of them gets shot, while the whole force is ready for them to come outside of the van.
08:05They are getting covered up by by the special force all around the building.
08:08One of his friend decide to sacrifice himself by going out and distracting all the police force.
08:14Meanwhile, Doug and James wear the cops suit and proceed to mix up.
08:17It does not take too long for Agent John to notice James and ends up taking his life away.
08:22While, Doug is devastated to see this and goes to his arms dealer and the boss, to free him from this world.
08:28After all this, he calls Claire, where she asks him to come meet him.
08:32This can be seen by him clearly from the next building, so he goes to the place where Claire worked and puts lots of money there.
08:38In the end he leaves and she finds the money and a note in which he tells her that she could do much more with this money than himself.
08:44No matter how much you change, you will still have to pay the price of the thing you have done.
08:48Maybe not today, but later on they will meet, this side or the other.
08:52Should I describe the pauvetous musician's sign?
08:58I'm afraid I don't know, but the other.
08:59Just a woman.
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09:13His wife and her husband have to come900 years ago.
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