The team reaches Shaw's apartment, breaks down a false wall and finds Shaw's safe behind it Odessa opens the safe but finds it empty. Josh and his team decide to break into Shaw's apartment during the parade. Denham then tells Josh that a hearing for Shaw has been scheduled for Thanksgiving during the Macy's Day Parade to avoid publicity, and Shaw will go free. Charlie tells Josh he's been rehired as the Tower's new manager, and Charlie warns Josh to stay away or he will have him arrested. They bring in Odessa, whose family ran a locksmith business. Slide trains the team but realizes he cannot do the robbery because he doesn't know how to crack the safe in Shaw's apartment. Josh hires his neighbor, a petty criminal named Slide, to help. Charlie brings up the obvious drawback that they are not thieves. Fitzhugh to draw up a plan to steal Shaw's money. Josh gathers Charlie, Enrique, and former Tower tenant Mr. As they drink she says Shaw must have had a cash safety net and suggests in jest that he find and steal it. Josh meets Denham at a bar and she invites him to get drunk. The building's owner is furious at Josh's action and fires Josh, Charlie and Enrique. Josh responds by destroying the windows of a Ferrari 250 Shaw has on display in his apartment. Shaw expresses condolences but appears insincere. Josh tells Shaw that Lester attempted suicide after losing everything he had. Josh, Charlie and Enrique visit Shaw, under house arrest in his penthouse apartment. Josh tells the Tower staff about Shaw's arrest and explains that he gave Shaw their pension fund to invest, and their money is gone. Denham explains that Shaw wasn't being kidnapped, he was attempting to flee arrest, accused of running a Ponzi scheme. Josh gives chase and almost catches him when he is clotheslined by FBI agent Claire Denham. One morning Josh sees what appears to be a kidnapping of Tower tenant and wealthy businessman Arthur Shaw. Murphy, in his first role since 2009, is in full Eddie Murphy mode, with comic riffs and astonished double takes.Josh Kovacs is the building manager of The Tower, a high-rise luxury apartment complex on Central Park West in New York City whose employees include concierge Charlie, his brother in law Enrique, an elevator operator Lester, the doorman nearing retirement Odessa, a maid and Miss Iovenko, who furtively studies for her bar exam at work. ![]() Fitzhugh (Broderick), who is jobless, broke, has lost his family and being evicted from the building, and characters played by Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe (her second film since her Oscar nomination) as a Jamaican whose father would crack safes, and - well, Kovacs decides they need someone more familiar with crime and enlists Slide ( Eddie Murphy), a loud-talking dude from the street in his neighborhood. Obviously, this requires stealing the car from the penthouse, where there's no door or elevator that can handle it. They're looking for a wall safe, but then discover Shaw's Ferrari is solid gold: $65 million is hidden in plain sight. Enraged, Kovacs recruits a team to break into the apartment. So dear old Lester and all the others are penniless. The FBI is on the job because Shaw has been running a Ponzi scheme, and among his loot are the pension plan and investments of the tower's employees. It was taken apart piece by piece, he explains to FBI agent Claire Denham ( Tea Leoni), and assembled there. His most prized possession is a bright red 1953 Ferrari, once owned by Steve McQueen. The penthouse is owned by Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), a financial wheeler-dealer, whose walls display priceless modern art. ![]() His team works flawlessly, beginning with the beloved doorman Lester (Stephen Henderson). The story: Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the perfectionist building manager at the most luxurious condo skyscraper in New York, which providentially is on Columbus Circle, in the exact footprint of Trump Tower. It's funny in an innocent screwball kind of way. There is also the novelty that here is a comedy that doesn't go heavy on the excremental, the masturbatory and symphonies of four-letter words. It's the kind of story where the executives at a pitch meeting feel they're being bludgeoned over the head with box-office dollars. The movie is broad and clumsy, and the dialogue cannot be described as witty, but a kind of grandeur creeps into the screenplay by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson.
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