| Steal | |
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| Directed by | Gérard Pirès |
| Written by | Mark Ezra adapted by Gérard Pirès |
| Produced by | Éric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer Michael Cowan Jason Piette |
| Starring | Stephen Dorff Natasha Henstridge Bruce Payne Steven Berkoff Clé Bennett Karen Cliche Steven McCarthy Alain Goulem |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Véronique Lange |
| Music by | Andy Gray |
| Distributed by | Alliance Atlantis (United Kingdom and Canada) SND Films (France) Remstar Media Partners |
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Running time | 81 minutes[1] |
| Countries | Canada France United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million[2] |
| Box office | $7.6 million[3] |
Steal (originally titledRiders) is a 2002action film directed byGérard Pirès and starringStephen Dorff,Natasha Henstridge,Bruce Payne, andSteven Berkoff. It was written byMark Ezra and Pirès.
Slim (Stephen Dorff), Frank (Steven McCarthy), Otis (Cle Bennett), and Alex (Karen Cliche) are a group of youthful bank robbers who commit their crimes anonymously and in innovative ways involving extreme sports such asskating andsnowboarding. The group evades capture from thepolice, led by "hardboiled cop"[4] Lieutenant Macgruder (Bruce Payne), but an anonymous individual seems to know who they are and threatens to inform the police unless they undertake a robbery for him. Enter the Mob, represented by underworld enforcer Surtayne (Steven Berkoff), who instructs the group to work for them also or they will all be killed. Slim becomes romantically involved with Karen (Natasha Henstridge), a police detective who distrusts Macgruder, and to save her and his friends escape from the threat of the anonymous man and the Mob, Slim concocts a daring robbery.
Steal received alimited release in the United States on 25 April 2003, grossing $220,994. It went on to gross a total of $7,622,383 worldwide.[5]
The film has a rating of 29% on the film review websiteRotten Tomatoes.[6]BBC's Neil Smith awarded the film 2 out of 5 stars, calling it "gloriously terrible"[7] and accusing it of trying to latch on to the popularity ofxXx andExtreme Ops. He found an upside infight choreography.[7]
