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Tower Heist is an action comedy film and first premiered on November 4, 2011 in the United States and Spain on 9 December of the same year in Mexico and Argentina on  January 19, 2012 in. It stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy , and Tea Leoni and directed by Brett Ratner.

The plot:

Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the manager of one of the most luxurious and secure buildings in New York, in the Columbus Circle. In the most conspicuous of all floor, attic, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) living, a billionaire Wall Street mogul who is under house arrest for stealing two billion dollars of investors, in addition to cheat many building workers, keeping their retirement and leaving them facing an uncertain future.

Desperate to learn the situation, Kovacs joined his brother, concierge Charlie (Casey Affleck), the bellhop Enrique (Michael Peña), the maid Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe) and another investor ruined by the way of working of Shaw Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick), in order to find a way to recover their money. Their search leads them to Slide (Eddie Murphy), a thief who helps organize the theft of $ 20 million they believe billionaire hides in his apartment.

They know perfectly the building, which will help them to commit theft as quickly as possible, but have to be careful with the proximity of Claire Denham (Téa Leoni), a special agent appointed to investigate the case of Shaw and may be the only person to discover their intentions.

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Production:

It was filmed between 30 October 2010 and 24 February 2011 in the city of New York, States.

Critical reception:

According to the website Rotten Tomatoes it scored a 69% positive feedback, leading to the following conclusion: "Tower Heist is a true Brett Ratner film a bit complicated but fun and exciting adventure of seeing and representing the welcome return of Eddie Murphy "Roger Ebert wrote that" heist is not a great movie for a lot of reasons, starting with the stupidity of the plan and the inability of these characters to succeed in anything more complex than get in line .