Josh, Charlie, Enrique, and evicted Tower tenant Mr. Josh meets Denham at a bar where she drunkenly suggests that Shaw has concealed $20 million as a reserve, and that Josh should steal it. Simon fires him for his actions, as well as Charlie and Enrique, despite Josh's protest that they had nothing to do with it.
TOWER HEIST WINDOWS
Out of anger, Josh smashes the windows of the 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso displayed in Shaw's apartment living room. Shaw expresses condolences, but is not sincere enough when he forgets to ask if Lester is all right. The next day Josh, Charlie, and Enrique confront Shaw in his penthouse apartment. He now has lost $73,000 and therefore cannot retire as planned. While visiting Lester in the hospital, he reveals that he attempted suicide because he gave Shaw all of his money, life savings included. Later on Lester attempts suicide by stepping in front of a train, but survives. Shaw was able to negotiate with the police and is instead placed under house arrest but Shaw still thinks he'll be able to walk away after his trial.
Josh confesses to the Tower staff that he gave their pensions to Shaw to invest, and they have lost everything.
Josh gives chase, but is tackled by FBI agent Claire Denham, who explains to Josh that Shaw was actually attempting to flee the country to resist arrest for masterminding a Ponzi scheme, embezzling $2 billion. One morning Josh witnesses what he believes is Arthur Shaw, The Tower's penthouse tenant, being kidnapped. He is also friends with Fitzhugh who despite being told to leave, cannot as he and his family have nowhere to go. Its employees include Josh's brother-in-law, concierge Charlie Gibbs, who is expecting a child with Josh's sister Enrique Dev'Reaux, a newly hired elevator operator Lester, the doorman nearing retirement Odessa Montero, an immigrant maid from Jamaica threatened with deportation and receptionist Miss Iovenko, who is studying to become a lawyer. Josh Kovaks is the building manager of The Tower, an upscale apartment complex in New York City. Concern over the implementation's harming ticket sales and inspiring further films to follow suit resulted in several theater chains' refusal to show the film at all if the plan went ahead, forcing Universal to abandon the idea. Prior to release, the film was involved in a controversy over plans by Universal Pictures to release it for home viewing on video on demand to 500,000 Comcast customers, only three weeks after its theatrical debut. Much of the criticism received by the film was focused on the plot, which was considered "formulaic," "rushed," "dull" and "laborious." The film was released on Novemand earned $152 million worldwide. However, Murphy was repeatedly singled out by critics as the star of the film, with critics feeling that he displayed a welcome return to the comedic style of his early career. The film received mixed reviews with much of the praise going to the cast, including Broderick, Leoni and Stiller. The film score was composed by Christophe Beck and released commercially on November 1, 2011. Filming took place entirely in New York City on a budget of $75 million (after tax rebates), with several buildings provided by Donald Trump used to represent the eponymous tower.
Ratner continued to develop the idea into what would eventually become Tower Heist, with Murphy later rejoining the production. As the script developed and changed into an Ocean's Eleven–style caper, Murphy left the project. Tower Heist began development as early as 2005, based on an idea by Murphy that would star himself and an all-black cast of comedians as a heist group who rob Trump International Hotel and Tower. Fitzhugh ( Matthew Broderick) and another employee of the apartment building, Odessa ( Gabourey Sidibe), to break into Shaw's apartment and steal back their money while avoiding the FBI agent in charge of his case, Claire Denham ( Téa Leoni).
The group enlist the aid of criminal Slide ( Eddie Murphy), bankrupt businessman Mr. The plot follows Josh Kovaks ( Ben Stiller), Charlie Gibbs ( Casey Affleck) and Enrique Dev'reaux ( Michael Peña), employees of an exclusive apartment building who lose their pensions in the Ponzi scheme of Wall Street businessman Arthur Shaw ( Alan Alda). Tower Heist is a 2011 American heist comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Griffin.
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