Tower Heist is a 2011 American
heist comedy film directed by
Brett Ratner and written by
Ted Griffin and
Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Griffin. It was released on November 2, 2011 in the United Kingdom, with a United States release following two days later.
Tower Heist follows Josh Kovaks (
Ben Stiller), Charlie Gibbs (
Casey Affleck) and Enrique Dev'reaux (
Michael Peña), employees of an exclusive apartment building who lose their pensions in the
Ponzi scheme of
Wall Street businessman Arthur Shaw (
Alan Alda). The group enlist the aid of criminal Slide (
Eddie Murphy), bankrupt businessman Mr. Fitzhugh (
Matthew Broderick) and another employee of the apartment building, Odessa (
Gabourey Sidibe), to break into Shaw's apartment and steal back their money while avoiding the FBI agent in charge of his case, Claire Denham (
Téa Leoni).