Old Man & the Gun, The

A fascinating, factually inspired, entertaining, hilarious, star-studded (Keith Carradine, Elisabeth Moss, Tika Sumpter, Isiah Whitlock Jr., John David Washington, Leah Roberts, William Cross, and Kevin McClatchy), 93-minute crime comedy based on Dave Grann's 2003 New Yorker article The Old Man and the Gun in which charismatic, lifelong, 74-year-old, gentlemanly bank robber Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), who robbed banks across the country with two aging cohorts (Danny Glover and Tom Waits) known as the "Over-the-Hill Gang" and escaped sixteen times from prison, including San Quentin, falls in love with a widowed Texas rancher (Sissy Spacek) he meets alongside of the road in 1981 while continuing his thieving ways and with tenacious detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck) hot on his trail.
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