City of Industry

When a robbery goes wrong thanks to gang newcomer Stephen Dorff, honour demands leader Harvey Keitel (whose brother is among the dead) seek revenge. John Irvin’s thriller follows his quest, complicated when Famke Janssen, widowed by Dorff in another set-up, joins him in the hunt., Bleak film noir about two brothers who—along with two other thieves—plan an intricate jewel heist., Hollywood’s ‘Mr Cool’, Harvey Keitel, is back in this dark revenge thriller. Small-time criminal Lee Egan (Timothy Hutton) wants out of the city but to start a new life he must carry out one last heist. He plots an elaborate jewellery robbery in Palm Springs and asks his elder brother Roy (Keitel) to help him. Roy is also a thief but, unlike Lee, he has blended almost invisibly into the remote Midwest. However, blood is thicker than water and Roy gives in to his brother’s emotional plea and agrees to help him. Lee recruits Jorge Montana (Wade Dominguez), a well-meaning guy with a wife and family on probation who is probably on his way back to jail. More disturbing for Roy is the ‘wheelman’ Lee has lined up – the unpredictable Skip Kovich (Stephen Dorff). The plans for the heist give Skip a taste for crime and he suggests that if this one is successful they should plan another. Roy doesn’t share his enthusiasm: he is instinctively sceptical of strangers and when it comes to Skip he doesn’t trust him at all. When Lee is murdered, Roy is determined to exercise his vicious revenge on the man who betrayed him and avenge his death., When jewel thief Roy Egan is violently double-crossed during a heist, he embarks on a mission of vengeance. The gritty action film also stars Timothy Hutton and Stephen Dorff and features early screen appearances by Lucy Liu and Famke Janssen., When a robbery goes wrong thanks to double-crossing gang newcomer Stephen Dorff, honour demands leader Harvey Keitel (whose brother is among the dead) seeks revenge. John Irvin’s thriller follows his quest, complicated when Famke Janssen, widowed by Dorff in another set-up, joins him in the hunt., Betrayal and revenge are the key ingredients of this violent, streetwise crime drama. Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) was once a highly successful thief but has gotten out of the business and now leads a quiet life in the Midwest. He’s lured out of retirement by his brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton); Lee figures that he’s come to the end of his rope as a small-time thief and wants to pull one last job that will earn him a healthy score. Lee and Roy devise a plan to knock over a jewelry store in Palm Springs and bring along two helpers, even-tempered family man Jorge (Wade Dominguez) and hot-headed driver Skip (Stephen Dorff). The heist goes like clockwork, but afterward Skip turns on his partners and kills Lee and Jorge. Roy is able to escape and swears to avenge his brother’s death with the help of Jorge’s wife Rachel (Famke Janssen). City of Industry was the debut feature for writer/producer Ken Solarz.