We’ll get this out of the way first: no, Quentin Tarantino had nothing to do with this adaptation. However, Life of Crime does come from the late Elmore Leonard’s book The Switch, and features John Hawkes and Mos Def playing younger versions of Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson‘s characters in Jackie Brown. With that past us, we can take a look at the first trailer for the drama which touches down at the end of the summer.
Coming from Daniel Schechter (who gave us one of the more promising miniscule-budget indies of the last few years, Supporting Characters), the project follows Jennifer Aniston as a kidnapped wife, whose wealthy husband (Tim Robbins) doesn’t want to pay her ransom. With a fun ensemble hopefully it’ll be a late-summer treat and one can check out the snappy preview below for the film also starring Isla Fisher and Will Forte.
Margaret “Mickey” Dawson is a loving, if not naive, housewife whose husband, Frank Dawson, has been embezzling millions for years and keeping the cash in off-shore accounts without her knowledge. Two career criminals, Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, catch wind of his scam and figure if they hold Mickey for ransom, Frank would have no choice but to pay up a million dollars. Except, what they don’t plan on is that Frank’s head over heels for his sex-kitten mistress, Melanie, and doesn’t want his wife back.
Life of Crime opens on August 29th.