Life of Crime

Right target. Wrong woman.

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch, this is a dark caper comedy. The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. However the husband decides that he'd actually rather not pay the ransom for his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and plot twists that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.

99 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Violence).
Comedy, Crime.

Showtimes

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Credits

Cast	Jennifer Aniston, Yaslin Bey, Isla Fisher, Will Foret, Mark Boone Junior, Tim Robbins, John Hawkes
Director	Daniel Schechter
Screenplay	Daniel Schechter, from the book by Elmore Leonard
Music	The Newton Brothers
Cinematography	Eric Alan Edwards
Editing	Daniel Schechter
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Ster-Kinekor
Made in	2013
Produced by	Abbolita Productions, Gotham Group, Startstream Entertainment, Venture Forth

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Crime, comedy
Language	Strong impact, frequent
Nudity	Mild impact, infrequent, sexual context
Sex	None
Violence	Strong impact, realistic, psychological, fairly frequent with bloodletting
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Die Burger Rozanne Els Geur kort in dié fliekpot	5
Cape Times John DeFore Not much snap and crackle.	10
Metacritic.com 28 critics	12
Rottentomatoes critics 73 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It may not stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best Elmore Leonard adaptations, but Life of Crime has enough ambling charm -- and a sharp enough cast -- to get by.	13
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Cool, funny Elmore Leonard crime tale has sex and language.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 25 users	14
Rottentomatoes users 7163 users	10
Internet 970 Netizens Waste of a good cast!	12
Average .. 55%	11