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Tower Heist fails to rise to expectations

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Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the building manager at The Tower, a luxury apartment complex in Manhattan, and home to investment kingpin Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda). When Shaw is charged with investments fraud, Kovacs, a long-time, dedicated employee is shocked to hear that his entire staff’s pension fund has disappeared along with all the...
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Tower Heist

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Tower Heist

Article Tools Print friendly E-mail story Tip Us Off iPod friendly Comments Share Article Facebook Twitter del.icio.us. Digg! Yahoo! Buzz Diigo google newsvine reddit technorati Yahoo! Myspace Despite the staleness of its casting, Tower Heist opens full of sparkle and snap. We watch Josh (Ben Stiller), a super-efficient super for a posh apartment building,...
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Small-Minded Oscar Producer Brett Ratner Issues Micro-Apology For Gay Slur

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Director Brett Ratner‘s resume doesn’t have the girth of other A-List directors, but his tiny output does include the Rush Hour film series, X-Men: Kill The Franchise, and new under-performing, soon-to-DVD Tower Heist. It was at a QA Friday night for Tower Heist that Ratner delivered this flaccid response to an innocuous question: Q:...
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Tiny Cat Defeats Robbers in Box Office Surprise

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In a surprise victory, DreamWorks’ Puss in Boots won the weekend for the second time in a row, besting the A-list comedy Tower Heist by nearly $10 million. Yes it seems that America just isn’t as interested in getting revenge on Bernie Madoff, at least not the way Brett Ratner envisioned it in Tower...
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Puss in Boots Stays Strong on Top of Weekend Box Office With $33.1 Million

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Puss in Boots Stays Strong on Top of Weekend Box Office With $33.1 Million

Paramount/Dreamworks’ animated hit comedy Puss In Boots displayed a terrific hold in its second go around to stay at the top of the North American box office. The hit film pushed the Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy action comedy Tower Heist to a decent second place opening, while few found themselves in the Christmas...
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Brett Ratner Admits He ‘Banged’ Olivia Munn, But Never Jerked Off While Eating …

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Brett Ratner Admits He ‘Banged’ Olivia Munn, But Never Jerked Off While Eating …

Noted Hollywood fauxteur Brett Ratner appeared on Attack of the Show to pimp his latest brain-smoothing studio confection, Tower Heist. After a comfortable amount of brown-nosing, host Kevin Pereira pointedly asked the director if rumors were true that a particularly unflattering passage in former co-host Olivia Munn’s memoir, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures...
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Review: ‘Tower Heist’ offers quality high-rise hijinks

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Tom Long/ Detroit News Film Critic ‘Tower Heist” is a silly tall tale told well. Featuring a crackerjack ensemble of actors who seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, director Brett Ratner’s blatantly commercial comedy also benefits from some perfect soak-the-rich, Occupy-Wall-Street timing. Who doesn’t want to see wealthy financial types go to jail? Well,...
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Review: ‘Tower Heist’ Is ‘Ocean’s Eleven Lite’; Very, Very Lite

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Review: ‘Tower Heist’ Is ‘Ocean’s Eleven Lite’; Very, Very Lite

Josh Kovacs is, quite simply, outstanding at his job. Back-breaking early hours don’t faze the manager of the chi-chi Tower apartment building, one of the most glitzed-out residences in Manhattan, as he uses that time to beef up his knowledge of fancy cheeses and impressive wines in order to seamlessly recommend them to his...
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