Focus (2015 film)

Focus is a 2015 American darkcomedy thriller film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Rodrigo Santoro.

Jess follows Nick to New Orleans, where she is introduced to Nickys crew, including the obese and profane Farhad Adrian Martinez. She picks a few pockets as a test, and soon Nicky and Jess develop a romantic relationship, upsetting Nicky, who was taught by his father to never become emotionally involved with anyone in their line of business. At the 17th Associated Football Franchise of America Championship Game at the MercedesBenz Superdome, Nicky gets into a round of increasingly extravagant bets with gambler Liyuan Tse B.D. Wong, eventually losing all of the money the crew has earned. To win it back, Nicky asks Tse to pick any player off the field and says that Jess will guess the number picked. A distraught Jess scans the field and notices Farhad wearing jersey number 55 and realizes it is another con. They take Tse for millions of dollars, but Nicky, wary of his growing emotional involvement, leaves Jess by the side of the road with her cut.Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires, working for billionaire motorsport team owner Rafael Garriga Rodrigo Santoro. Garriga needs to beat a team headed by Australian businessman McEwen Robert Taylor to win the championship. Nicky will pretend to be a disgruntled technician on Garrigas team willing to sell Garrigas custom fuel use algorithm EXR. Instead he will sell McEwen a bogus version which will slow their car down during the race. At a prerace party, Nicky runs into Jess, who is now Garrigas girlfriend. Nicky has a convincing fight with Garriga in public and is recruited by McEwen to provide the component. ........

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