For his part, Tom has a particular set of skills, and blah. Nivens kills another agent and tries to pin it on Tom. But in the tradition of mediocre film noir, it all goes very bad. Of course, Nivens, who is a loner living in a posh suburban house by himself, and a reluctant Hall, who is married with two young children and a third on the way, decide to steal Tom’s money and pretend he is nuts and scare him off. Apparently, several unstable people have tried to confess to being the In-and Out Bandit for the glory, I suppose. In fact, “Honest Thief,” at times resembles the 1994 turkey “Blown Away.” Baker sends agents Nivens (Jai Courtnay) and Hall (Anthony Ramos) to interview Tom. “Honest Thief” is no “The Departed,” and director co-writer Mark Williams is no Martin Scorsese. We see the Boston skyline repeatedly, but much of the film was shot in Worcester. He got the dog, which he comes to love and carries into the Boston FBI headquarters. The FBI agents include Agent Baker (Robert Patrick), who is father figure to Agent Meyers (a very good Jeffrey Donovan, originally of Amesbury). But he’s really trying to turn himself in to local FBI agents, hoping to get a deal, a short sentence (after blowing the safes in 12 banks?) and Annie to wait for him. She thinks he fixes safes for a living (ho-ho). Tom hasn’t confessed to Annie yet, and they haven’t moved in together in Newton either. Kate Walsh (left) stars as Annie and Liam Neeson (right) stars as Tom Carter in director Mark Williams’ HONEST THIEF, an Open Road Films release.Credit : Open Road FilmsĬut to a year later. As the story begins, Tom meets the attractive, almost age-appropriate Annie Sumpter (Kate Walsh of “Grey’s Anatomy”), the manager of a storage facility in Milton, and a grad student (psych) at Boston College, and he soon offers to share a modest hardwood-paneled home in Newton with her as husband and wife. Tom was a Marine demolitions expert and later a solo thief, who knocked over 12 banks in seven states, amassing $9 million in cash. This October’s Liam Neeson action-movie has him playing Tom Carter aka Tom Dolan and “the In-and-Out Bandit,” a nickname he hates. At AMC Boston Common, AMC South Bay and suburban theaters.
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