I truly enjoyed this film. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt - he of 10 Things I Hate About You and Brick - one of my new favorite young actors. Besides that main draw there were also others, like Jeff Daniels as a wise & charming blind man/roommate.

The story is of a guy who had everything when he was in high school. It was all taken from him when he screwed up and crashed his car on prom night, killing two of those in the car, maiming another as well as messing him up for life. After the accident, he has nothing & cannot concentrate like a normal person. He has a lowly job cleaning a bank at night but wants to be a teller. He also has a dream with his blind roommate to open a restaurant. His family basically laughs at him about it.

One day he is befriended in a bar by a pretty redhead (Isla Fischer) and her group of friends. He slowly gets close to their group & feels like they accept him. He even goes over to have Thanksgiving dinner with them, albeit a week late. That is when they suggest he help them with a bank heist on his bank.

It annoyed me that he gave into them on this & I feel like he should have just walked away, but he really felt that he had nothing & that getting an amount of money would help him be someone, have some sort of power, which he was lacking.

He agrees to help, and then events spiral out of control. I won't spill the end, but I will say it is a great time, if only because Gordon-Levitt is a wonderful actor & pulls it all together.

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