KING OF THIEVES (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules), Michael Gambon (Layer Cake), Charlie Cox (The Theory of Everything), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Ray Winstone (The Departed), Francesca Annis (Dune), Tom Courtenay (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Paul Whitehouse (The Death of Stalin)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

James Marsh (The Theory of Everything), director; Joe Penhall (Enduring Love), writer; Tim Bevan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Eric Fellner (Baby Driver), Ali Jaafar (The Idol) and Michelle Wright (Entebbe), producers; Benjamin Wallfisch (Hidden Figures), composer; Danny Cohen (The King’s Speech), cinematographer; Jinx Godfrey (The Mercy) and Nick Moore (About a Boy), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A group of elderly retired thieves (Caine, Courtenay, Broadbent, Whitehouse and Winstone) plan a jewel heist on the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, but although they pull off the heist, the law is not too far behind them…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The most mainstream movie to date based on the real-life Hatton Garden robbery in 2015, King of Thieves sees acting thespians like Michael Caine and Jim Broadbent pull off a darkly funny and fascinating British geriatric heist caper.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 2018

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