Film Review: 'Tower Heist'
Victims turn tables on Wall Street crook in Murphy-Stiller buddy comedy
2011-11-10
Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News
By the time Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) was charged with running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, it was already too late for the authorities to find the fortune that he had ostensibly hidden in offshore accounts. As a condition of being released on bail before trial, he was ordered kept under house arrest in his luxury penthouse at The Tower, an exclusive high-rise located on Central Park West. Read the complete article
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