{"id":35547,"date":"2024-04-05T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35547"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:25:33","slug":"the-town-directed-by-ben-affleck-starring-ben-affleck-rebecca-hall-jon-hamm-jeremy-renner-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35547","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Town&#8221; directed by Ben Affleck, starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm &#038; Jeremy Renner \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z040524zview_thetown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Town <\/strong><\/em>(2010)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Ben Affleck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard <\/strong>based on<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VE4D6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> PRINCE OF THIEVES <\/strong><\/a>by<strong> Chuck Hogan<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, George Carroll, Owen Burke, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper <\/strong>and <strong>Victor Garber<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doug MacRay (Affleck), &#8220;Jem&#8221; Coughlin (Renner), &#8220;Gloansy&#8221; MacGloan (Carroll) and &#8220;Dez&#8221; Elden (Burke) have been friends for years.\u00a0 Now in their early twenties they are accomplished bank robbers.\u00a0 When the latest heist goes sideways, Jem takes bank teller Claire Keesey (Hall) hostage during their getaway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Claire is released unharmed, FBI agents think she may have been working with the bank robbers.\u00a0 Because Claire may have information she&#8217;s given to the FBI, the thieves decide Doug should &#8220;get close&#8221; to her.\u00a0 Doug sets up a random encounter.\u00a0 He and Claire hit it off.\u00a0 Soon Doug finds himself falling for her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the FBI begin to close in, Doug and his crew are given their next robbery assignment.\u00a0 When Doug refuses the job, Claire&#8217;s life is threatened.\u00a0 No matter what Doug chooses, things are not going to end well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeremy Renner was nominated for an <em>Academy Award<\/em> for <em>Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.<\/em> He was also nominated for a <em>Golden Globe Award<\/em> for <em>Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.<\/em>\u00a0 Renner was also a nominee for the <em>Best Supporting Actor Award<\/em> by the <em>National Society of Film Critics, USA<\/em>.\u00a0 The<em> Screen Actors Guild<\/em> also nominated him as <em>Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pete Postlethwaite was nominated for a <em>British Academy Film Award<\/em> as <em>Best Supporting Actor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Ben Affleck who shows his prowess as a director.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>The Town <\/strong><\/em>(2010) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z040524zview_thetown2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town (2010) Director: \u00a0Ben Affleck Screenplay: Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard based on PRINCE OF THIEVES by Chuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35581,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35547\/revisions\/35581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}