Parker (2013 film)

Parker is a 2013 American action crime thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, the film is adapted from Flashfire, the 19th Parker novel, written by Donald Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark.

Parker Jason Statham is a professional thief, specializing in big robberies, who follows a unique codehe doesnt steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. His mentor Hurley Nick Nolte asks him take charge of a job with a crew he doesnt know, consisting of Melander Michael Chiklis, Carlson Wendell Pierce, Ross Clifton Collins Jr., and Hardwicke Micah Hauptman. The job, taking the gate money from the Ohio State Fair, is successful, but Hardwicke ignored instructions, resulting in him needlessly killing a man in a fire that was set as a distraction.Parker, disgusted with the crews unprofessional standards, refuses to participate in another robbery that could net them millions. Needing his share of the Ohio loot to finance the bigger job, Melanders crew decides to shoot Parker and leave him to die alongside a road. Having barely survived, Parker is found by a family of tomato farmers who take him to the hospital, where he subdues a male nurse, steals his uniform, and escapes. He then robs a checkcashing store, shooting one proprietor in the leg and stealing a womans car. ........

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