The Score (film)

The Score is a 2001 crime drama. It is notable for its cast, which includes Robert De Niro as Nick Wells, a Canadian professional art thief, who wants out of the criminal life for good because of his age, Edward Norton as Jack Teller, the ambitious new kid who teams up with Wells for this "inside job," and Marlon Brando as Max, Wells' financial partner, who plans the caper and connects Wells with Teller. For Actor's Studio graduates Brando and De Niro, the only two people ever to win an Academy Award for the same starring role, as Don Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, respectively, this was the first time they had actually worked together.

Plot

In the film, Wells and Teller intend to steal a priceless French scepter, once thought lost but rediscovered as it was brought into Canada illegally. However the job requires getting the artifact out of the heavily-guarded Montreal Customs House, where Teller has taken a maintenance job. In order to avoid suspicion, Teller has played the part of a mentally challenged person named Brian. Norton's portrayal was consistently compared by film critics with that of Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The two-time Academy Award nominee Norton was almost universally placed well below DiCaprio's 1993 Oscar-nominated role as Arnie Grape.

Related Topics:
Montreal - Mentally challenged - Film critic - Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 1993

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