PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The cat’s in the bag.
Synopsis
Set in 1998, Caught Stealing follows Henry “Hank” Thompson ( Austin Butler ), a former baseball prodigy slumming it as a bartender in New York City after a traumatic injury ruined his Major League ambitions. When his punk rocker neighbor Russ ( Matt Smith ) heads home to England to visit his sick father, he leaves his cat Bud ( Tonic ) in Hank’s care. That’s not all he has to worry about, as Russ is actually a drug dealer involved with all sorts of nasty customers, thrusting Hank into the dangerous criminal underworld of New York City, where lives and money are on the line.
My thoughts
Darren Aronofsky is one of those filmmakers with such a unique voice and tone that you often know how you’re going to be feeling when you wat