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Masterminds (2016)

★ 5.8 · 1,848 ratings on TMDB

What Would You Do With $17 Million?

Masterminds poster★ 5.8

A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.

DirectorJared Hess
CastDallas Edwards, Jason Sudeikis, Karsten Friske, Kate McKinnon, Ken Marino, Kristen Wiig
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Masterminds keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Shared director or cast.

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