Two decades after its debut, the crime thriller movie Inside Man, starring Denzel Washington, is now finally available to stream. As of today, Netflix has officially added director Spike Lee’s highly rated 2006 film to its expanding library.
What do we know about Denzel Washington’s Inside Man movie?
Lee directed Universal Pictures’ Inside Man from a screenplay written by Russell Gewirtz. In the star-studded film, Washington played an NYPD detective who becomes a hostage negotiator during a bank heist. This was Lee and Washington’s fourth collaboration, after Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, and He Got Game. During its theatrical run, the R-rated film grossed over $184 million at the box office. The movie has maintained a Fresh score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 209 reviews.
“The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a determined detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda. As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them,” reads the official synopsis.
The Inside Man cast also included Clive Owen as robber Dalton Russell, Jodie Foster as lawyer Madeleine White, Christopher Plummer as bank founder Arthur Case, Willem Dafoe as Captain John Darius, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Detective Bill Mitchell. It was executive-produced by Karen Kehela Sherwood, Jon Kilik, Daniel M. Rosenberg, and Kim Roth, with Brian Grazer set as a producer. The creative team consisted of editor Barry Alexander Brown, director of photography Matthew Libatique, composer Terence Blanchard, production designer Wynn Thomas, and costume designer Donna Berwick.
