

Doug flees, donning an MBTA uniform and escaping on a train. At first, he thinks she means to betray him, but she gives a clue verbally, to warn him away. Watching from across the street via binoculars, he sees the FBI are with her as she tells him to come over. Knowing that Claire is in danger and that he will never escape as long as Fergie is alive, Doug murders him and his bodyguard and calls Claire.

Determined not to go back to prison and without bullets, Jem commits suicide by cop by running out with guns in hand. Frawley spots Jem and they exchange gunfire, in which Jem is wounded in the leg. Caught in a firefight with FBI SWAT operators Dez and Gloansy are both shot. The FBI, having received information from Doug's ex and Jem's sister Krista (who Frawley had threatened), surrounds the perimeter. Doug reluctantly agrees but swears that he will kill Fergie if anything happens to Claire.Īt Fenway, Doug and Jem enter disguised as Boston police officers, steal $3,500,000 in gate cash, and prepare to escape in an ambulance, dressed as paramedics.


Then, Fergie threatens to kill Claire if Doug does not do the job, telling him he controlled his father by making his mother an addict, which led to her suicide. He tries to back out of the next heist at Fenway Park angered, Jem beats him, saying he is in too deep to walk away. Shocked to discover Doug was one of her assailants, she cooperates with the FBI and breaks up with him. When Frawley learns Claire quit her job, he taps her phone, shows his file on Doug to her, and threatens to prosecute her as an accomplice after realizing they are together. Interrogated by Frawley, he fails to get confessions and must release them.ĭoug asks Claire to go away with him, and she accepts. Their next robbery in the North End goes awry, and they barely escape. During a visit to his father Stephen in prison, Doug shares his plan to leave Boston for Florida. His plan works, and she doesn't talk.įBI Agent Adam Frawley recognizes their ties to local Irish mobster Fergus "Fergie" Colm, whose front is a florist's. Jem will kill her if he knows, so to dissuade her, Doug tells her if she tells the police they will then put her in witness protection and send her to live in another state. She tells Doug she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers, and he realizes that she can identify Jem, sending them all to prison.
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He also almost became a professional hockey player which he threw away to follow in his father's footsteps. Soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang.Īs they grow closer, he tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother, who he believes went to live with his aunt in Tangerine, Florida. Assistant manager, Claire Keesey, is a hostage who is released unharmed.įinding out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug follows her to find out how much she has told the police, and to ensure that hot-headed Jem does not eliminate her as a witness. įour lifelong friends from the neighborhood of Charlestown, Boston, Douglas "Doug" MacRay, James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy" MacGloan, and Desmond "Dez" Elden, rob a bank. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2010, while Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Postlethwaite was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Based on actual events, it received praise from critics for its direction, screenplay, editing and the performances of the cast (particularly Renner) and grossed $154 million worldwide. The film premiered on Septemat the Venice Film Festival before being released in the United States on September 17, 2010. It also stars Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, and Chris Cooper, and follows a group of Boston bank robbers who set out to get one final score by robbing Fenway Park. The Town is a 2010 American crime thriller film co-written, directed by, and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves.
