Takers
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| Directed by | John Luessenhop |
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| Cinematography | Michael Barrett |
| Edited by | Armen Minasian |
| Music by | Paul Haslinger |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32 million |
| Box office | $69.1 million |
Takers is a 2010 American heist action thriller film directed by John Luessenhop from a story and screenplay written by Luessenhop, Gabriel Casseus, Peter Allen, and Avery Duff. It features Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Michael Ealy, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, and Zoe Saldaña in an ensemble cast. The film was released on August 27, 2010.
The film follows a group of professional bank robbers (Ealy, Brown, Christensen, Walker and Elba) who specialize in spectacular robberies. They are pulled into one last job by a recently paroled cohort (T.I.) only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective (Dillon) and his partner (Hernandez) who interrupt their heist.