The Lookout

(USA, 2006, 98 minutes)

A former high school jock, disabled after massive head trauma in a car crash and working as the night janitor in a smalltown bank, is approached by a bank robbing gang into being their lookout. Smart, well-made B thriller.

Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment present a Laurence Mark/Parkes-MacDonald/Barber-Birnbaum production. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino; with Bruce McGill; and Isla Fisher. Directed and written by Scott Frank; produced by Walter Parkes, Laurence Mark, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber; music by James Newton Howard; director of photography (Technicolor, Panavision), Alar Kivilo; production designer, David Brisbin; costume designer, Abram Waterhouse; film editor, Jill Savitt.