Director
Brett Ratner
Main cast
Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck and Tea Leoni
Synopsis
Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in Tower Heist, a comedy
caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who
stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover
the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate
revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.
Queens native Josh
Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured
residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye,
nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street
titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing
two billion from his investors. The hardest hit
among those he defrauded? The
tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
With only days
before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh’s crew turns to petty crook
Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible…to steal what they are sure is
hidden in Arthur’s guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the
building better than anyone. Turns out they’ve been casing the place for years,
they just didn’t know it.