A movie for adults, for a change that keeps you guessing-and smiling- with first-rate acting in a dramas about art and friendship.
Doors Open
2012
Action / Crime / Drama
Doors Open
2012
Action / Crime / Drama
Plot summary
Mike McKenzie is a bored,self-made millionaire who is cheered to learn that art auctioneer Laura Stanton,the old flame he allowed to escape him,is back in Edinburgh. Mike is disdainful of private art collectors and is interested when art expert Professor Gissing suggests that they,along with banker Allan Cruikshank,devise a plan to swap priceless paintings from the national gallery and owned by a banking conglomerate for clever forgeries. The forgeries will be left behind,giving the impression that the thieves abandoned their haul when they fled. For a single day the gallery is open to the public under the Doors Open scheme and the trio plan to use this to their advantage. Mike brings on board another old friend,small time crook Charlie Calloway,but Charlie is in debt to a gang boss known as the Geordie and wants a painting to buy him off. The gang use a fake fire drill to pull off the theft and,despite getting locked in the gallery,are successful. Laura returns to Mike,who confesses what he has done but Gissing has double-crossed the others,absconding with all the paintings and leaving Allan,Charlie and Mike at the mercy of the Geordie. It is down to Laura to save the situation.
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Clever, incredibly well-acted, charming
Underrated gem!
Amazon ratings are much higher. Thoroughly entertaining, satisfying romp. It rises above the crime caper genre with a great cast, humor, a love story, engaging characters, Scottish locale, museum world interest, and an Ian Rankin novel screenplay adaptation.
Stephen Fry is worth the time
The cast is tops. And the top actor is Stephen Fry an art professor then collection curator. Douglas Henshall buys a painting for his partner. Then five years pass, and he and she are not together. She, Lenore Crichlow, is engaged to the man purchasing the Fry collection. The painting Henshaw bought for her she sold, and it is in the collection. He offers to buy it, but is refused. He, Fry, and Kenneth Collard decide to take seven paintings and replace them with forgeries. The criminal doing the theft gives the Hate character a phony painting. In the third five years we find out what happened. I think breaking the timeline into five year segments doesn't work. It worked in the book by Rankin, but here it slows the pace too much. The soundtrack is the most annoying music I have ever heard. Still, it is a good film for the top acting.