LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Casey Affleck has joined the all-star cast of the action comedy "Tower Heist."
Matthew Broderick and Judd Hirsch have also been added to the Universal Pictures movie. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Tea Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena were previously cast.
"Heist," directed by Brett Ratner, is about an overworked manager (Stiller) of an illustrious tower residence. He leads a team of defrauded workers in a heist of its penthouse tenant, a Bernie Madoff-type Wall Street capitalist (Alda) who pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled the staff.
Affleck will play Stiller's friend who also works under him in the penthouse. He is a straight arrow and wants to turn Stiller and the other co-conspirators in.
Broderick will play a Wall Street-type who is actually one of the good guys; he lost his job and joins Stiller's gang.
For Affleck, the "Heist" represents his first movie since starring in this summer's indie feature "The Killer Inside Me" and the unveiling of his much-ballyhooed pseudo-documentary "I'm Still Here."
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Matthew Broderick and Judd Hirsch have also been added to the Universal Pictures movie. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Tea Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena were previously cast.
"Heist," directed by Brett Ratner, is about an overworked manager (Stiller) of an illustrious tower residence. He leads a team of defrauded workers in a heist of its penthouse tenant, a Bernie Madoff-type Wall Street capitalist (Alda) who pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled the staff.
Affleck will play Stiller's friend who also works under him in the penthouse. He is a straight arrow and wants to turn Stiller and the other co-conspirators in.
Broderick will play a Wall Street-type who is actually one of the good guys; he lost his job and joins Stiller's gang.
For Affleck, the "Heist" represents his first movie since starring in this summer's indie feature "The Killer Inside Me" and the unveiling of his much-ballyhooed pseudo-documentary "I'm Still Here."
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