Flawless michael caine imdb biography

2007 British film

Flawless equitable a 2007 Britishfictional^[1]heistcrime film headed by Michael Radford, written overstep Edward Anderson, and starring Archangel Caine and Demi Moore.

It premiered 11 February 2007 in Germany. The film difficult a limited release in rectitude United States on 28 Hoof it 2008.^[2]

Plot

A reporter enters a eatery to interview Miss Laura Quinn, the only woman who astute has been a manager readily obtainable the London Diamond Corporation, pine a puff piece about illustriousness first generation of women incoming the workforce.

Quinn places unadulterated box on the table, disclosing a huge diamond, and says, "I stole it." The newshound, suddenly enthralled, assumes that Quinn has been in prison contemplate the theft all this crux.

The story then flashes delay leaving to 1960, when Quinn was still employed as a supervisor at London Diamond Corporation.

She is passed over for trim promotion for the sixth past despite being intellectually superior summit her male co-workers. Quinn discovers she is due to do an impression of fired from the janitor, Cricketer. He offers her a dwell in in a plot: stealing sufficient diamonds to make them moneyed, but not enough to remark noticed.

Knowing she is deemed old by her coworkers allow has few other professional surmise, she agrees. At a organized event at the Company President's mansion, she finds the jump combination codes.

On shakes price, Quinn and Hobbs hatch wonderful plan, exploiting a weakness quick-witted the new camera security formula. However, Hobbs manages to underpinning every single diamond from primacy vault, almost two tons expenditure, and by way of span proxy, holds them for fine ransom of 100 million pounds.

The head of the preventative measure syndicate from King's Row equitable forced to pay the payment, leaving him financially ruined. Quinn, having never agreed to that, now finds herself trapped.

The company hires a private tec, Mr. Finch, to keep illustriousness matter from going public. Apprehensive from the start, Finch keeps a close eye on Cricketer and Quinn.

Quinn seeks without more ado avoid capture and jail indifference giving the diamonds back on the other hand Hobbs refuses to negotiate. Gaining no idea where he has hidden them, she conceals their scheme while assisting Finch greet the investigation.

The situation escalates when the diamonds are plead for returned, and the incident practical leaked to the Press.

Rectitude president of London Diamond Impenetrable has a heart attack naughty to stress. Feeling cornered dimension out for a drink get Finch, Quinn runs to position bathroom and cries uncontrollably. End losing her diamond earring store the drain, she gets mar idea as to how decency heist could have been pulled and where the diamonds could be. After Finch excuses bodily, she goes down into blue blood the gentry sewers under the company take up finds Hobbs guarding a paragraph.

He pulls a gun mature her, but she finds smashing huge pile of diamonds handy her feet. Hobbs confesses earth has no interest in decency diamonds or the money splendid wants to ruin the imagination of the insurance syndicate whose deliberate delay in covering reward wife's medical expenses resulted revere her death many years a while ago.

The ransom is ultimately receive, and the insurance head dies by suicide. Hobbs leaves. Quinn finds the rest of nobleness diamonds and calls Finch claiming she followed a hunch. Eventually there is questionable proof she was involved in the event, Finch is unwilling to seem charges against Quinn because earth has been involved with pull together emotionally.

While touching her mouth, he tells her that class evidence against her is indeterminate. The company recovers the taken property and implies to blue blood the gentry press that the theft was just a rumour.

The chart returns to the present. Quinn tells the reporter she quiet and shortly after received fine letter from a bank effect Switzerland.

Hobbs apologized for in the matter of her, saying that he abstruse needed a disgruntled employee vindicate access to the diamond bound, and as compensation gave tiara the ransom money. Quinn trifles how she spent the profit of her life donating repeated the unspent money to changing organizations and people in be in want of.

Cast

Critical reception

The film received half-bred reviews from critics. As wear out June 2020^[update], the film holds a 55% approval rating wedlock the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 95 ratings prep added to an average rating of 5.71 out of 10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Michael Caine's excellent performance makes Flawless station more than an average holdup movie."^[3]Metacritic reported the film difficult an average score of 57 out of 100, based truth 21 reviews.^[4]

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