The Lookout Trailer

(Scott Frank, USA 2007) “A guy with brain damage, his blind roommate and a bank ripe for robbery. Doesn't sound like much. But wait till you see the spellbinding work that Scott Frank makes of it. If you don't know Frank, he's the screenwriter who crafted two of the best-ever adaptations of Elmore Leonard novels, Out of Sight and Get Shorty. Now, in a knockout directing debut, Frank cooks up his own mischief. The web he spins will pull you in. Guaranteed. Jeff Daniels as the blind man with a sharp wit that doesn't allow for coddling and near matching his triumph in The Squid and the Whale, is exceptional. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, so good in Mysterious Skin and Brick, digs deep into a character who can't even know himself. This is acting of the highest order, putting Gordon-Levitt, 26, up there with the best of his generation.”--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. With Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher. 99 min.