Life of Crime (film)

Life of Crime is a 2013 American crime comedy film written and directed by Daniel Schechter, based on Elmore Leonards novel The Switch 1978, which includes characters later revisited in his novel Rum Punch 1992, which was adapted into the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown 1997. Life of Crime was screened on the closing night 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival and released in theaters on August 29, 2014.

Principal photography lasteddays. The major portion of the film was shot in Greenwich, Connecticut. Three time Academy Award nominee Tod A. Maitland did the sound mixing.Life of Crime has received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 64 based on reviews from 73 critics, with an average rating of 5.910. The sites consensus reads It may not stand shouldertoshoulder with the best Elmore Leonard adaptations, but Life of Crime has enough ambling charmand a sharp enough castto get by. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score fromto 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a 60 based oncritics. ........

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