The Town | DVD | Widescreen

  Ben Affleck follows his acclaimed Gone Baby Gone directorial debut by directing, co-writing and starring in a taut thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope and escaping a past that has no future. He plays Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper also star.

The story is set in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, known for its high number of bank robbers. Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is a career criminal who leads a group of ruthless bank robbers, including his best friend, Jem (Jeremy Renner). During a heist, they take bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage but later release her unharmed. Doug begins to develop feelings for Claire, which complicates his criminal life as FBI Agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) closes in on their gang.