here's going to be a big heist this summer and it's happening right in our own country. Through the winding European-like streets of Montreal, get ready for a crime tale that brings the brightest faces of Hollywood right into our own backyard.

  The Score boasts a cast you don't want to miss. Edward Norton plays a deceptive young thief named Jackie Teller. The criminal upstart uses his mentally challenged alter ego, Brian, to get to Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro.

  The godfather of Hollywood thrillers plays retired career thief Nick Wells. He's done his part for the crime community, and is searching for a more quaint life in Quebec. He runs a swank jazz club, something that couldn't be more appropriate for Montreal's jazz festival in early July. It takes some blackmailing on Teller's part to return Wells to his evil doings, because all he wants is a happy life with his fiancée Diane, played by Angela Bassett, and to kick back with the stolen loot he's amassed over the years.

  This job requires the best minds in thievery, because what's at stake is an ancient scepter worth millions. It's also a job 
actors
Robert De Niro
Edward Norton
Angela Bassett
Marlon Brando

director
Frank Oz

locations
Montreal, Quebec

outtake
Marlon Brando
reportedly arrived on set naked from the waist down so the camera would always shoot him close up. "It's rather late in the game to be concerned about his weight," said some of the cast members.

that will violate Wells' golden rule: always work alone.

  That's when Max enters, played by uber-actor Marlon Brando. Brando won golden statuettes for his role in The Godfather and On the Waterfront, but these years he hardly ever graces the silver screen. Many Hollywood critics have noted how difficult Brando is on set, and he hasn't had a serious role since 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau. But gambling on the actor may pay off in The Score, playing Wells' long-time pal, and the mastermind behind the big heist.

  But the biggest switch is for director Frank Oz, whose resume includes comedies such as What about Bob?, In and Out and Bowfinger. It's his first stab at an action/thriller. Oz is also a master at puppeteering. He's responsible for many of the Sesame Street and Muppet characters and even had his directing debut with 1984's puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal.

  But The Score definitely acts as a departure from his cute and cuddly friends, as he attempts a more serious stab at filmmaking with this cat and mouse thriller.

- Zack Medicoff