Inside Man (2006)
Inside Man is a 2006 American heist thriller
film directed by Spike Lee, and written by Russell Gewirtz. It centers on an elaborate bank heist on Wall
Street over a 24-hour period. The film stars Denzel
Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD's hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates
the heist, and Jodie Foster as
Madeleine White, a Manhattan power broker who becomes involved at the request of the bank's
founder, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer),
to keep something in his safe deposit box protected from the robbers. Inside Man marks the
fourth film collaboration between Washington and Lee.
