Plot of The Town Movie 2010 :
A team of four lifelong friends—Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), James "Jem" Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), Albert "Gloansy" Magloan (Slaine), and Desmond "Dez" Elden (Owen Burke), from the tough streets of Charlestown, Massachusetts—rob a Cambridge bank at gunpoint. They take bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage, soon learning that she lives four blocks from Gloansy. Jem wishes to confront her to see what she knows, but Doug fears that he will make things worse and takes on the assignment himself, eventually meeting up with her and asking her out on a date. Claire confesses that she is still traumatized by the robbery and tells Doug all about the experience. In later conversations with Claire, Doug reveals some of his personal life to her, in particular that his mother deserted his family when he was a young child, the strained relationship between him and his father who is now imprisoned, and mentions in passing that his mother had relatives in Tangerine, Florida, where she might have gone. The two form a deep relationship and Doug develops a strong, protective attachment to Claire.
Meanwhile, FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) is in charge of the case surrounding the robbery. He surveils the crew at a cookout following leads that point to their involvement, and realizes that they all work for Fergus 'Fergie' Colm (Peter Postlethwaite), a local florist in the Boston neighborhood.
Doug is hesitant to undertake their next assignment, due to the professionalism of the guards and the higher risks associated with the taking on of the armored truck crew. His worries are confirmed during the robbery in the North End, where gunfire erupts. The police arrive quickly and a chase ensues; the team barely escapes. Frustrated, Agent Frawley demands that some evidence be found in their torched escape vehicle to justify bringing MacRay and his crew in for an interrogation.
After the FBI team finds justifiable evidence and brings the team in for questioning, Agent Frawley promises Doug that he will spend the rest of his life in prison. In a visit to his father (Chris Cooper) at the local federal prison, Doug reveals that he is planning on leaving Charlestown and asks his father why he never looked for his mother when she left them. His father becomes upset and abruptly ends the conversation, explaining that there was nothing to be found.
When Jem approaches Doug with another job, he initially turns it down, explaining that he is leaving town and taking Claire with him. He then visits Fergie to tell him that he is not doing the job. Fergie tells him that he will, and explains that Doug's father worked for him and wanted out too. Instead, Fergie castrated him chemically and got Doug's mother hooked on drugs. He reveals that Doug's mother never left the family, instead telling him that she committed suicide in an anonymous burnout. He warns Doug that he will kill Claire if he doesn't do the job, which is revealed to be robbing Fenway Park.
Doug and Jem enter the stadium dressed as Boston police officers and trick the guards and counting room staff. They retrieve the money, change into EMT uniforms, and prepare to leave in an ambulance. Meanwhile the FBI was tipped off and have surrounded the entire building. Jem spies some SWAT officers inside the building with them and begins to shoot; Dez is killed. Realizing their desperate situation, Gloansy convinces Doug and Jem to put their cop uniforms back on and slip out while he creates a diversion. Gloansy bursts through the garage door in the ambulance and is killed while creating the diversion, but Agent Frawley quickly figures out the ruse and realizes Jem and Doug are still on the loose.
Frawley catches sight of Jem and tries to arrest him. Jem fires at Frawley and runs through the streets and initiating another massive firefight, during which he is killed. Doug escapes in a police cruiser, after witnessing Jem's death. He heads directly to Town Flowers and kills Fergie. From a building across the street from Claire's apartment, Doug calls her and asks her to come away with him. He sees that Agent Frawley and a team of FBI agents are with her, and that they are pressuring her to help lure him into a trap. She ends the conversation with a coded warning to him, which helps him realize that she still has feelings for him.
Dressed as an MBTA bus driver, Doug slips through the net of police in Charlestown and takes a bus to an Amtrak station where he boards a southbound train. Meanwhile, Claire finds a bag full of money along with a tangerine that Doug buried in a community garden that she tends. A note in the bag explains that she should keep the money and that he's leaving town, and ends the letter with "I'll see you again, on this side or the other." The film ends with a shot of Doug looking over an estuary from the porch of a wooden house.
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A team of four lifelong friends—Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), James "Jem" Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), Albert "Gloansy" Magloan (Slaine), and Desmond "Dez" Elden (Owen Burke), from the tough streets of Charlestown, Massachusetts—rob a Cambridge bank at gunpoint. They take bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage, soon learning that she lives four blocks from Gloansy. Jem wishes to confront her to see what she knows, but Doug fears that he will make things worse and takes on the assignment himself, eventually meeting up with her and asking her out on a date. Claire confesses that she is still traumatized by the robbery and tells Doug all about the experience. In later conversations with Claire, Doug reveals some of his personal life to her, in particular that his mother deserted his family when he was a young child, the strained relationship between him and his father who is now imprisoned, and mentions in passing that his mother had relatives in Tangerine, Florida, where she might have gone. The two form a deep relationship and Doug develops a strong, protective attachment to Claire.
Meanwhile, FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) is in charge of the case surrounding the robbery. He surveils the crew at a cookout following leads that point to their involvement, and realizes that they all work for Fergus 'Fergie' Colm (Peter Postlethwaite), a local florist in the Boston neighborhood.
Doug is hesitant to undertake their next assignment, due to the professionalism of the guards and the higher risks associated with the taking on of the armored truck crew. His worries are confirmed during the robbery in the North End, where gunfire erupts. The police arrive quickly and a chase ensues; the team barely escapes. Frustrated, Agent Frawley demands that some evidence be found in their torched escape vehicle to justify bringing MacRay and his crew in for an interrogation.
After the FBI team finds justifiable evidence and brings the team in for questioning, Agent Frawley promises Doug that he will spend the rest of his life in prison. In a visit to his father (Chris Cooper) at the local federal prison, Doug reveals that he is planning on leaving Charlestown and asks his father why he never looked for his mother when she left them. His father becomes upset and abruptly ends the conversation, explaining that there was nothing to be found.
When Jem approaches Doug with another job, he initially turns it down, explaining that he is leaving town and taking Claire with him. He then visits Fergie to tell him that he is not doing the job. Fergie tells him that he will, and explains that Doug's father worked for him and wanted out too. Instead, Fergie castrated him chemically and got Doug's mother hooked on drugs. He reveals that Doug's mother never left the family, instead telling him that she committed suicide in an anonymous burnout. He warns Doug that he will kill Claire if he doesn't do the job, which is revealed to be robbing Fenway Park.
Doug and Jem enter the stadium dressed as Boston police officers and trick the guards and counting room staff. They retrieve the money, change into EMT uniforms, and prepare to leave in an ambulance. Meanwhile the FBI was tipped off and have surrounded the entire building. Jem spies some SWAT officers inside the building with them and begins to shoot; Dez is killed. Realizing their desperate situation, Gloansy convinces Doug and Jem to put their cop uniforms back on and slip out while he creates a diversion. Gloansy bursts through the garage door in the ambulance and is killed while creating the diversion, but Agent Frawley quickly figures out the ruse and realizes Jem and Doug are still on the loose.
Frawley catches sight of Jem and tries to arrest him. Jem fires at Frawley and runs through the streets and initiating another massive firefight, during which he is killed. Doug escapes in a police cruiser, after witnessing Jem's death. He heads directly to Town Flowers and kills Fergie. From a building across the street from Claire's apartment, Doug calls her and asks her to come away with him. He sees that Agent Frawley and a team of FBI agents are with her, and that they are pressuring her to help lure him into a trap. She ends the conversation with a coded warning to him, which helps him realize that she still has feelings for him.
Dressed as an MBTA bus driver, Doug slips through the net of police in Charlestown and takes a bus to an Amtrak station where he boards a southbound train. Meanwhile, Claire finds a bag full of money along with a tangerine that Doug buried in a community garden that she tends. A note in the bag explains that she should keep the money and that he's leaving town, and ends the letter with "I'll see you again, on this side or the other." The film ends with a shot of Doug looking over an estuary from the porch of a wooden house.
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