Additional information for Man on a Ledge, which has a domestic theatrical release set for January 13, 2012. The film is being distributed by Summit Entertainment and has not yet been rated. Man on a Ledge has a total running time of 102 minutes.
PG-13
USA
12A
Ireland
PG
Canada
12
Netherlands
M/12
Portugal
12
Germany
12A
UK
U
France
PG-13
Philippines
U/A
India
12
Switzerland
15
South Korea
13
Argentina
PG13
Singapore
15
Norway
IIA
Hong Kong
G
Japan
102min
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As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.
In New York City, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) checks in to the Roosevelt Hotel under the false name of Walker, goes to his hotel room at the top floor, and climbs on the ledge, apparently ready to commit suicide. The crowd below sees him and calls the police. They isolate the area, with Dante Marcus (Titus Welliver) controlling the crowd, while Jack Dougherty (Edward Burns) tries to talk with Nick. However, Nick says he will only speak to negotiator Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks), who is on a leave of absence after failing to convince a depressed policeman not to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge a month earlier.Lydia arrives at the hotel room and manages to acquire Nick's fingerprints from a cigarette they share. Dougherty has them analyzed and discovers that Nick is an ex-policeman who was arrested for stealing a $40-million diamond from businessman David Englander (Ed Harris). Nick has escaped from prison, where he was serving 25 years for the heist, after being allowed to attend his father's funeral a week earlier. Nick, however, says he is innocent and reveals that Englander used to employ cops to protect his multi-floor jewelry business. One day, while Nick was escorting Englander and the diamond, he was knocked unconscious by two men in ski masks. He awakened to find that Englander had framed him for stealing the diamond in order to get the insurance money, as he had lost his fortune during the stock market crisis.Unbeknownst to the police, Nick is merely distracting them while his brother Joey (Jamie Bell) and Joey's girlfriend Angie (Genesis Rodriguez) break into Englander's upper floor jewelry vault in the building across the street to steal the diamond and prove Nick's innocence. Meanwhile, Dougherty informs Marcus of Nick's identity, and Marcus orders the security of the jewelry store to check the vault. Although Joey and Angie are able to evade them, they don't find the diamond. They set off the alarms, tricking Englander into retrieving the diamond from another safe that they did not know about, and return to his office, where they ambush him and steal the diamond at gunpoint. Note: The elements of a man on a ledge serving to cause a distraction to aid a jewel heist also appear in the episode of the Peter Gunn TV series episode "The Leaper" written by Robert Blees (first aired Dec. 29, 1958).Meanwhile, Nick's ex-partner, Mike Ackerman (Anthony Mackie), arrives at the hotel with evidence that Nick is planning something and demands to be allowed into the hotel room. Lydia does not trust him, and Dougherty backs her up. Ackerman claims he has found bomb schematics in Nick's hideout and is convinced that he will detonate an explosive somewhere. While the crowd is evacuated by the anti-bomb squad, Lydia, believing in Nick's innocence, calls Internal Affairs and discovers that three of the cops employed by Englander were suspected of being corrupt; a deceased officer called Walker, Ackerman, and Marcus.Englander calls Marcus, one of the men who helped him frame Nick, and has him capture Joey and Angie, but they have already given the diamond to a hotel concierge who passes it to Nick as he is being chased by the tactical team throughout the hotel. Marcus chases Nick to the roof where he orders Lydia to be arrested for obstruction. Englander brings Joey and Angie, and threatens to throw Joey off the roof if Nick does not give him the diamond. Nick does, and Englander leaves. Meanwhile, Lydia escapes custody and rushes back to the roof.
There, Marcus holds Joey at gunpoint in order to force Nick to jump off the roof, silencing him, when Ackerman arrives and shoots Marcus who in turn shoots back at Ackerman, wounding him. Nick rushes to Ackermn's side, and Ackerman apologizes, claiming that although he helped Englander to fake the diamond's theft, he never knew Nick would be framed. Marcus survives as he is wearing a bulletproof vest and is preparing to kill Nick when Lydia arrives and shoots him.Nick jumps from the roof onto an air mattress set up earlier by the police, catches up to Englander before he enters in his limo, beats him, and pulls the missing diamond from his pocket, revealing the truth. Englander is arrested, while Nick is proved innocent and released after intervention by the governor. He meets Joey, Angie, and Lydia at a bar, where he introduces Lydia to the hotel concierge, who is Nick's father - having faked his death in order to help his son. Joey proposes to Angie with a diamond ring stolen from Englander's vault, and they all celebrate together.
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Director(s)
Pablo F. Fenjves
Writer(s)
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
producer
Jake Myers
executive producer
David Ready
executive producer
Mark Vahradian
producer
Producer(s)
Henry Jackman
Composer(s)
Nick Cassidy
Sam Worthington
Manager
Mandy Gonzalez
Valet
William Sadler
Screaming Woman
Barbara Marineau
Psychiatrist
J. Smith-Cameron
Mike Ackerman
Anthony Mackie
Father Leo
Patrick Collins
Joey Cassidy
Jamie Bell
Angie
Genesis Rodriguez
Janice Ackerman
Afton Williamson
Prison Guard
Robert Clohessy
Desk Sergeant
Joe Lisi
Cop - Bullhorn
Candice McKoy
Jack Dougherty (as Ed Burns)
Edward Burns
Cop - Room (as John Solo)
Johnny Solo
Dante Marcus
Titus Welliver
Lydia Mercer
Elizabeth Banks
Police Technician
James Yaegashi
Police Technician
Daniel Sauli
Suzie Morales
Kyra Sedgwick
Cameraman
Frank Pando
ESU
Jason Kolotouros
Bearded Guy
Michael Lee Laurence
CSI Tech
Don Castro
David Englander
Ed Harris
Englander's Assistant
Pooja Kumar
Ted Henry
John Dossett
Angry Traffic Woman
Sylvia Kauders
Nestor
Felix Solis
Brooklyn Cop
Jabari Gray
Brooklyn Cop
James Andrew O'Connor
Investor
Ann Arvia
Investor
Jonathan Walker
Lady
Liz Holtan
Cop
Jason Furlani
Lutz
Terry Serpico
Cop – File
Erin Quill
Construction Worker (as Arthur Nasacarella)
Arthur J. Nascarella
Detective
Jimmy Palumbo
Detective
J. Bernard Calloway
Man on a Ledge
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
producer
Jake Myers
executive producer
David Ready
executive producer
Mark Vahradian
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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