7/31/2023 0 Comments Tower heistBut the film is certainly entertaining enough to be an escape from daily life. Nor from the usual cliches of action movies. Not an escape from the news, exactly, since the movie's main storyline - an obscenely wealthy money manager is arrested for defrauding his clients, who include the staff at his tony NYC residential building - seems ripped from the Bernie Madoff headlines. As the movie ends Shaw begins his life sentence and Josh is booked into jail, a satisfied smile slowly forming on his face.If you're seeking escape, you'll get it from TOWER HEIST. The team retrieves the car from its hiding place in Shaw's rooftop pool and send various parts of the car to Tower employees to compensate for their lost pensions. The FBI accepts on the condition that Josh, being the primary conspirator, must serve a minimal two-year sentence. She shows them Shaw's ledger and tells them she will turn it over in exchange for everyone's freedom. As Josh is being questioned by the FBI, Miss Iovenko arrives, telling the FBI that she passed her bar exam three days ago and is acting as Josh's attorney. She personally handcuffs Josh and privately congratulates him. The FBI arrests him and Josh's other accomplices. She catches up to him, assuming he is fleeing with the Ferrari, but finds the truck empty. Denham sees Lester using a stolen truck to try to escape from the building. Denham sees Shaw's safe and informs him that he did not declare the safe on an inventory of items taken when he was arrested, which is a violation of the conditions of his bail. Just as they reach the lobby Agent Denham and Shaw return and take the same elevator back up. They lower the car out the window into Fitzhugh's old apartment six floors below, and then take it down to the lobby on top of an elevator. Josh finds a ledger of Shaw's illegal finances in the car's glove box. They realize Shaw invested his cash in gold, had the gold melted down and cast into car parts, and then assembled the car in his apartment where the gold would be hidden in plain sight. Slide and Fitzhugh struggle for Slide's gun the gun goes off and a bullet hits the car, revealing gold underneath the Ferrari's paint. The team reaches Shaw's apartment, breaks down a false wall and finds Shaw's safe behind it Odessa opens the safe but finds it empty. Josh and his team decide to break into Shaw's apartment during the parade. Denham then tells Josh that a hearing for Shaw has been scheduled for Thanksgiving during the Macy's Day Parade to avoid publicity, and Shaw will go free. Charlie tells Josh he's been rehired as the Tower's new manager, and Charlie warns Josh to stay away or he will have him arrested. They bring in Odessa, whose family ran a locksmith business. Slide trains the team but realizes he cannot do the robbery because he doesn't know how to crack the safe in Shaw's apartment. Josh hires his neighbor, a petty criminal named Slide, to help. Charlie brings up the obvious drawback that they are not thieves. Fitzhugh to draw up a plan to steal Shaw's money. Josh gathers Charlie, Enrique, and former Tower tenant Mr. As they drink she says Shaw must have had a cash safety net and suggests in jest that he find and steal it. Josh meets Denham at a bar and she invites him to get drunk. The building's owner is furious at Josh's action and fires Josh, Charlie and Enrique. Josh responds by destroying the windows of a Ferrari 250 Shaw has on display in his apartment. Shaw expresses condolences but appears insincere. Josh tells Shaw that Lester attempted suicide after losing everything he had. Josh, Charlie and Enrique visit Shaw, under house arrest in his penthouse apartment. Josh tells the Tower staff about Shaw's arrest and explains that he gave Shaw their pension fund to invest, and their money is gone. Denham explains that Shaw wasn't being kidnapped, he was attempting to flee arrest, accused of running a Ponzi scheme. Josh gives chase and almost catches him when he is clotheslined by FBI agent Claire Denham. One morning Josh sees what appears to be a kidnapping of Tower tenant and wealthy businessman Arthur Shaw. Josh Kovacs is the building manager of The Tower, a high-rise luxury apartment complex on Central Park West in New York City whose employees include concierge Charlie, his brother in law Enrique, an elevator operator Lester, the doorman nearing retirement Odessa, a maid and Miss Iovenko, who furtively studies for her bar exam at work.
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