Fall of the American Empire, The

After a shy, intelligent Canadian courier driver (Alexandre Landry), who has a Ph.D. in philosophy, happens upon two thieves (Patrick Emmanuel Abellard and Kémy St-Éloy) who botch a robbery of a strip mall store in Montreal and then abruptly stashes two duffel bags full of cash in his van in this thrilling, hilarious, well-written, superbly acted, unpredictable, 127-minute, 2018 crime thriller, he tries to figure out how to safeguard his windfall with the help of an ex-con biker (Rémy Girard), a gorgeous prostitute (Maripier Morin), former bank teller girlfriend (Florence Longpré), and a financial business guru (Pierre Curzi) while gang members desperately try to locate the loot and two frustrated detectives (Maxim Roy and Louis Morissette) constantly have them under surveillance as they investigate the missing money.
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