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{{quote|"''There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. And a one-square-mile neighborhood in Boston, called Charlestown, has produced more bank and armored car robbers than anywhere in the U.S.''"}}
''[[The Town]]'' (2010) is a [[The Caper|heist film]] that follows a group of bank robbers in [[Hollywood New England|Charlestown, Boston]], and the law enforcement personnel attempting to stop them.
Doug MacRay ([[Ben Affleck]]) is not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. Instead, he became the leader of a crew of ruthless bank robbers, who pride themselves on taking what they want and getting out clean. The only family Doug has are his partners in crime, especially James "Jem" Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), who, despite his hair-trigger temper, is the closest thing Doug ever had to a brother.
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The villainous version thereof. Fergie the Florist is in his sixties at the very least, but still has a very tight grip over [[The Irish Mob]].
* [[Bank Robbery]]: Sure enough.
* [[Beat]]: {{spoiler|When the robbers are wearing nun masks and changing from the first to the second switch car, they stop when they notice a police officer sitting in his cruiser across the street, looking at them. Both sides just stare at each other for a moment, with the cop torn between doing his job or fleeing with his life, and the robbers hesitating on whether to open fire first. The cop thinks better of it considering the odds and simply looks away, allowing the robbers to flee
* [[Beauty Inversion]]: Krista Coughlin, played by Blake Lively, who is often seen disheveled and ratty during the film (and often seen with pimples, cuts or bruises). Sharp contrast to Rebecca Hall's appearance as Claire.
* [[Big Bad]]: Fergie "The Florist" Colm.
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* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Subverted; though Agent Frawley at times comes off this way nothing he does violates the law or standard police protocol. He's simply ruthlessly efficient and willing to do whatever's allowed to do his job.
* [[Death by Cameo]]: [[Alias (TV series)|Victor Garber]] appears for 30 seconds in the opening scene as a bank manager who is severely beaten (although not killed) by James during the opening robbery. However, in the extended version of the film, there is a scene where Doug and Claire visit him at the hospital.
* {{spoiler|[[Did Not Get the Girl]]}}: {{spoiler|Because he was the criminal who traumatized her, that's why
* [[The Dragon]]: Fergie's associate, though {{spoiler|Doug effortlessly dispatches him at the end}}.
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Even though Doug has only known Claire for a couple of weeks, he is still willing to {{spoiler|take part in a major heist so that Fergie and his henchman won't kill her as an intimidation tactic}}.
* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: When asked about his father, Doug says that he "finally made it out to the suburbs", which is true, technically, only, he left out the fact that where he is in "the suburbs" is actually a prison in Walpole.
* [[Gangsterland]]: If the statistic in the page quote is to be believed (it isn't), Boston certainly fits.
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: When Doug asks Claire if he can get her a drink. He says, "What's the worst that could happen?" Cuts to Frawley and Dino raiding a hideout.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Frawley and the other FBI agents.
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* [[The Irish Mob]]: 'Fergie' Colm. MacRay and his gang, though Irish-American crooks, probably don't count being 'merely' freelance bank robbers.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "{{spoiler|Go fuck yourself}}."
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: [[Deconstructed]], as {{spoiler|Jem is out of bullets and intentionally uses the ploy to commit [[Suicide by Cop]]
* [[Jerkass]]:
** While he has noble intentions, the way FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley goes about his job is a bit over-the-top. {{spoiler|His conversations with Krista, where he casually lays out her past in cheerful detail and intimidates her at the same time, and casually mentions that her daughter is being transferred to Social Services in a later conversation, exemplifies his behavior}}.
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* [[One Last Smoke]]: Not quite a smoke, but before [[Suicide by Cop|he lets the police kill him]], [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Jem enjoys the last of a discarded McDonald's Coke he sees on the ground]].
* [[Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers]]: Stated as true by Agent Frawley. Semi-lampshaded in that he prefaces it with saying "it isn't a very civil libertarian thing" for him (a cop) to say.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Claire is played by English actress Rebecca Hall, and her accent subtlety slips throughout the movie. One example is in the scene where Doug and Claire are on a date and run into Jem. The line "So I've been telling all my friends about you
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Played straight with the way Doug and Jem use their cop disguises to escape Fenway Park as the police move in. By using the disguises, they blend in with the real BPD officers. Jem, however, gives himself away by carrying his money bag with him, while Doug manages to escape because he behaves like every other cop at the scene.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: We figure that Doug's the 'good' criminal when, while Jimmy's screaming at the terrified Claire to hurry up when she keeps flubbing the lock to the bank vault, he puts his hand over hers and gently tells her to breathe deeply and take her time.
** Jem himself gets a moment late in the movie when he reveals {{spoiler|that the guy he killed had been planning on killing Doug, and Jem intercepted him en route
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: {{spoiler|Every member of Doug's gang goes down like this
* [[Pseudo Crisis]]: {{spoiler|Inverted. After their second robbery, the team races across the Charlestown Bridge (leading out of the North End across the river to Charlestown) before the police can set up a roadblock or open the drawbridge. When they get across and are sure no one's followed them, they jump out of their getaway van and prepare to torch it... and then they turn around and see a cop staring in wide-eyed surprise at them and their weapons. After a few moments staring at each other, the cop turns his head the other way and allows them to flee
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Jem seriously shows signs of this.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: There were a few complaints about the scene where the lone cop drives off after staring at the four armed robbers, but Affleck based it on an actual event that happened to a bank robber he interviewed in prison.
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