This film is about two brothers, Andy and Hank who are both in financial strife so they decide to knock off their own parent's jewellery shop. This was supposed to be the perfect crime. The boys knew the business layout, the safe numbers and the staff who worked it and they knew that their parents were insured so nobody would be hurt. However, the robbery turns horribly awry.
This film is a lesson in morality and iniquity and ensuing righteous justice. The director used flashbacks to and from the robbery from the perspectives of the different characters - the brothers and their father.
Andy and Hank were played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. Andy, the older brother and seemingly successful executive had been embezzling his employer for a long time to fund his drug habit and it was about to catch up with him. Hank was well behind in his child-support payments and was sleeping with his brother's wife. The two characters were a study in human base instincts and scruples.
This extract of dialogue from the film was between Andy and his drug dealer:
Andy: The thing about real estate accounting is that you can, you can, add down the page or across the page and everything works out. Everyday, everything adds up. The, the total is always the sum of its parts. It's, uh, clean. It's clear. Neat, absolute. But my life, it, uh, it doesn't add up. It, uh... Nothing connects to anything else. It's, uh... I'm not, I'm not the sum of my parts. All my parts don't add up to one... to one me, I guess.
Justin: Get a shrink or a wife.
Andy: Uh, I got a wife.
Justin: Get a shrink.
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