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When crime is all you know, you've got to take what you can.
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
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Christopher Walken Peter McDonald Anne Pitoniak Kate Burton Jim Mayzik Vera Farmiga Donal Logue Cyndi Lauper Paul D'Amato Wally Dunn Olek Krupa Chuck Cooper John Ortiz José Zúñiga Branden Vega Patrick Fitzgerald Rosalyn Coleman Claudia Shear Jerry Grayson Tom Noonan Ronnie Farer Ismael Ramirez George Smurra Kia Goodwin Mark Greenfield Erika Greene
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