The lookout

Resource Information

The work The lookout represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The lookout

Statement of responsibility

Birnbaum/Barber ; Laurence Mark Productions ; Miramax Films ; Parkes/MacDonald Productions ; Spyglass Entertainment ; produced by Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Laurence Mark, Walter F. Parkes ; written by Scott Frank ; directed by Scott Frank

Subject

• Bank robberies -- United States -- Drama
• Crime -- Feature
• Criminal behavior -- United States -- Drama
• Criminal psychology -- United States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• High school students -- United States -- Drama
• Long-term memory -- Drama
• Memory disorders -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Thriller -- Feature
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Traffic accident victims -- United States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Crime
• Drama
• Feature films
• Suspense films
• Thriller
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. He is unable to have meaningful job and he goes to work as a night cleaning man in a bank. He comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. Confused, but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. When he realizes he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry

Cataloging source

CANA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Alar Kivilo ; editor, Jill Savitt ; music, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Abram Waterhouse ; production designer, David Brisbin

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for language, some violence and sexual content

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

L665688 2007

PerformerNote

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Albert Watson, Alex Borstein

Runtime

99

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action