72%User score 72 percent
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973 · Crime · Drama
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5.8K votes
Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America.
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.
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Andres Gomez
June 28, 2013
Good movie with good cast. No new plot but well performed and entertaining.
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John Chard
May 7, 2019
You know people get up everyday, tell themselves something's gonna change their lives. The Town is Charlestown, Boston, a place where crime is a way of life. Following a bank robbery, professional thief Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) has to keep a watch on bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) because after using her as hostage leverage during escape from the heist, she is the only witness who could possibly identify…
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Filipe Manuel Neto
August 27, 2022
**Affleck does an excellent job, where Jeremy Renner particularly stands out.** I really enjoyed this film, where action, drama and romance are mixed in a well-balanced and intelligent way. The script is set in Boston, and takes us to meet a group of professional bank robbers, some of them with criminality in their blood and with incarcerated parents. The group makes an ostentatious robbery in which they force the ma…
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CinemaSerf
June 23, 2026
There is something almost Dickensian about the Boston community in which "Doug" (Ben Affleck) and "Coughlin" (Jeremy Renner) live. They are robbers, bank robbers, and fairly successful and audacious ones at that and the rules of their turf are that nobody works with the law. One of their raids sees them take bank manager "Claire" (Rebecca Hall) hostage for a short time before releasing her unharmed. Then, realising t…
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