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The Outfit is a 2022 American psychological crime drama thriller film directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Moore and Johnathan McClain. The film stars an ensemble cast including Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O'Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale. Rylance plays an English tailor, or, as he prefers to be called, a "cutter", in Chicago whose primary customers are a family of vicious gangsters. The film premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022,[5] and released in the United States on March 18, 2022, by Focus Features, to positive reviews.

The Outfit
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Graham Moore
Written by	Graham Moore Johnathan McClain
Produced by	Scoop Wasserstein Amy Jackson Ben Browning
Starring	Mark Rylance Zoey Deutch Johnny Flynn Dylan O'Brien Nikki Amuka-Bird Simon Russell Beale
Cinematography	Dick Pope
Edited by	William Goldenberg
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Production company	FilmNation Entertainment
Distributed by	Focus Features Universal Pictures (International)
Release dates	February 14, 2022 (2022-02-14) (Berlinale) March 18, 2022 (2022-03-18) (United States)
Running time	106 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million[2]
Box office	$4 million[3][4]

Plot

In 1956 Chicago, Leonard Burling is an English cutter who runs a custom tailor shop in a neighborhood controlled by Irish Mob boss Roy Boyle. Roy's son and second-in-command, Richie, and his chief enforcer, Francis, use Leonard's shop as a stash house for dirty money; Leonard tolerates this arrangement as the Boyles and their men are his best customers. Leonard also shares a complicated relationship with shop receptionist Mable who, unbeknownst to Leonard, is also Richie's girlfriend. Mable has no interest in Leonard's trade and ownership of the store, wanting instead to leave Chicago and travel the world.

One night, Francis shows up at the shop with Richie, who's been shot in the belly after a confrontation with the rival LaFontaine family, a black criminal organization. Leonard is forced at gunpoint to treat Richie's wounds and hide a briefcase containing a copy of an FBI recording with detailed information on the crew's operations, which was provided by the "Outfit", a nationwide syndicate founded by Al Capone that protects criminal groups from the law. Francis gets in touch with Roy and departs, leaving Leonard and Richie alone. The two men converse and start to bond, and Leonard takes advantage of Richie's naivety to convince him that Francis is an informant and plans to hand the tape over to the FBI.

When Francis returns, Leonard intercepts him, claiming that Richie is light-headed and delusional from blood loss. Richie threatens Francis, who is forced to kill him in self-defense. He and Leonard then hide Richie's body just as Roy arrives with his bodyguard Monk. The two men lie and tell him that Richie left the store on his own; Francis volunteers to go find him. Roy notices his son's coat in the store's backroom and threatens Leonard, demanding the truth. Francis then returns with Mable in tow, claiming that he found Richie's blood in her apartment. When Roy orders his men to torture her for information, Leonard distracts him by revealing the reason why he came to Chicago: his wife and daughter were both killed in a fire at his former tailor shop and home on Savile Row.

When the shop's phone rings, Leonard answers it; he tells Roy that Richie is still alive and waiting for him. Roy and Monk depart but leave Francis behind. Leonard then explains to Francis why he lied: Mable is an FBI informant. Leonard deduces that she started dating Richie just so she could spy on his family, blaming them for her father's murder, which Mable confirms. He directs Mable to call Violet LaFontaine, give her the fake location so she can ambush and kill Roy and his men, and offer to sell the recording. Francis is persuaded to go along with the plan when Leonard tells him he can gun down Violet when she arrives at his store; with Roy dead, he will then be perfectly positioned to take over the crew.

Violet presents Mable with a large sum of money for the recording; Leonard uses hand signals to warn her about Francis before staging an argument to lure him out. Francis is shot twice by Violet's bodyguards, and they leave with the tape. However, Leonard then reveals that the "recording" is a fake. Mable realizes that he has been deceiving the Boyles from the start by planting messages from the Outfit, setting up a bug so they would incriminate themselves, and coaching her to trick both them and Violet.

Leonard gives Mable the real tape to send to her FBI contacts and the money and urges her to go and live her dreams. As Leonard douses the store with flammable liquid and lights it with a match, Francis gets up and shoots him in the arm before his gun runs out of bullets; he then pulls out a knife. Leonard rolls up his sleeves, revealing that his arms are heavily tattooed. As the fire in the back of the shop burns, he tells Francis that in his youth he was a gang enforcer until he was ordered to commit a heinous crime. Fleeing from his gang, he reinvented himself and started a family, until his old gang found them and burned down his shop, killing his wife and daughter. Francis lunges at Leonard and a struggle ensues. Leonard fatally stabs Francis in the neck with his prized fabric shears. Wearing a dark jacket to hide his wounds, he quietly leaves the store as it burns.

Cast

• Mark Rylance as Leonard Burling
• Johnny Flynn as Francis
• Zoey Deutch as Mable Shaun
• Dylan O'Brien as Richie Boyle
• Simon Russell Beale as Roy Boyle
• Nikki Amuka-Bird as Violet LaFontaine
• Alan Mehdizadeh as Monk

Production

The Outfit is the directorial debut of Graham Moore. It was written by Moore and Johnathan McClain, and produced by FilmNation Entertainment. In January 2021, the film was announced.[6] In February, Focus Features pre-bought the distribution rights, and Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, and Johnny Flynn joined the cast.[7] In April, Simon Russell Beale and Nikki Amuka-Bird were added to the cast.[8] Principal photography began on March 5, 2021, in London, England, with cinematographer Dick Pope.[7] Filming wrapped in early April.[9][8] During post-production, editing was completed by William Goldenberg and the musical score was composed by Alexandre Desplat.[7][10]

Release

The film premiered at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022.[5] It was theatrically released in the United States on March 18, 2022,[11] after being postponed from its original February 25 date.[12] The film was released on streaming on April 8, 2022 by Peacock,[4] and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 3, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.[13]^{[better source needed]}

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, The Outfit was released alongside Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Umma, and X, and was projected to gross $750,000–2.5 million from 1,324 theaters in its opening weekend.[14] The film earned $1.5 million in its opening weekend, finishing eighth.[15] Men made up 56% of the audience during its opening, with those above the age of 35 comprising 60% of ticket sales and those above 45 comprising 40%. The ethnic breakdown of the audience showed that 60% were Caucasian, 15% Hispanic and Latino Americans, 10% African American, and 15% Asian or other.[16] The film dropped out of the box office top ten in its second weekend, finishing twelfth with $568,180.[17]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 164 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's consensus reads, "The Outfit isn't flashy, but a solid story and Mark Rylance's tightly tailored performance make this a comfortable fit for fans of old-school thrillers."[18] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19] Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film a 74% positive score, with 55% saying they would definitely recommend it.[16]

The performances of the cast, especially Rylance's, were well-received. Critics gave positive notes to the costume and production design, cinematography, score, and Moore's screenplay.[20][21] Deadline Hollywood's Pete Hammond said Moore had "crafted a literate and thrilling gangster picture that brings a fresh touch to a well-worn genre".[20]

References

External links

• The Outfit at IMDb 
• The Outfit at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] The Outfit (2022)

The Outfit, in der deutschsprachigen Fassung auch untertitelt mit Verbrechen nach Maß, ist ein Thriller von Graham Moore, der im Februar 2022 bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin uraufgeführt wurde. Moore feiert mit dem Film sein Regiedebüt. Der Film kam am 18. März 2022 in die US-amerikanischen und am 2. Juni 2022 in die deutschen Kinos.

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- [en] The Outfit (2022 film)

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[ru] Костюм (фильм)

«Костюм» (англ. The Outfit) — американский криминальный драматический фильм режиссёра Грэма Мура. В главных ролях Марк Райлэнс, Зои Дойч, Дилан О’Брайен и Джонни Флинн.

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