The Brothers Bloom (PG-13)
Academy Award winners Rachael Weisz and Adrien Brody star in this globe-trotting comedy about the last great adventure of the world's best con men
Abandoned and unloved as children, Stephen Bloom and his younger brother bounce from town to town, and foster home to foster home, perfecting card tricks and dreaming up ways to separate their classmates from their allowances. As the boys drift, they each hone a Big Dream. Stephen, brains and brawn of the operation, fantasizes about the Ultimate Con, while his angst-filled brother's deepest desire is more elemental: to truly know himself beyond the confines of Stephen's meticulous schemes.
Twenty-five years later, the brothers have matured into world-class confidence men, with a global network of accomplices, co-conspirators and, naturally, enemies. Shadowed by The Curator (Robbie Coltrane, channeling Peter Sellers) and accompanied by Bang Bang, a laconic pyrotechnician ("Babel's" Rinko Kikuchi), they travel the world in search of great marks. When the game is up, they throw super-awesome post-con wrap parties.
One day, the brothers meet Penelope (Weisz), and from the carefully orchestrated moment she drives her canary-yellow Lamborghini into Brody's bicycle, their cons take on new meaning.
When genuine romance starts to blossom between one of the brothers and their latest mark he is reluctant to exploit her naivete but she has already taken the bait. As they journey across the globe the web of deceit pulls tighter and tighter.
