«The Outfit» is a 2022 American crime drama film directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Moore and Johnathan McClain.
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- The Outfit is a 2022 American crime drama film.
- It was directed by Graham Moore.
- «The Outfit» is his directorial debut.
- The screenplay is written 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.
- The plot centers around an English tailor, or, as he prefers to be called, a “cutter”, (Rylance) in Chicago whose primary customers are a family of vicious gangsters.
- The film had its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022.
- The film was released in the United States on March 18, 2022, by Focus Features.
- The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
- In January 2021, it was announced that Graham Moore was set to make his directorial debut on the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Johnathan McClain, with FilmNation Entertainment set to produce the film.
- In February 2021, Focus Features pre-bought the rights to distribute the film with Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, and Johnny Flynn attached to star.
- Simon Russell Beale and Nikki Amuka-Bird were added to the cast in April 2021
- Principal photography began on March 5, 2021 in London, England, with cinematographer Dick Pope.
- Filming wrapped in early April 2021.
- During post-production, editing was completed by William Goldenberg and the musical score was composed by Alexandre Desplat.
- The film premiered at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022.
- It was theatrically released in the United States on March 18, 2022, after being postponed from its original February 25 date.
- The film was released on streaming on April 8, 2022, and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 3, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
- 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.
- The film earned $1.5 million in its opening weekend, finishing eighth.
- 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.
- The film dropped out of the box office top ten in its second weekend, finishing twelfth with $568,180
- Mark Rylance was actually trained in tailoring techniques by the famous Huntsman tailors on Savile Row, previously seen in the Kingsman series.
- You can catch a glimpse of their iconic house tweed momentarily in the film.
- The title has a dual meaning. The Chicago mafia is referred to as The Outfit.
- The Minifon Attaché (or Minifon Hi-Fi) portable cassette recorder shown in this movie was not introduced until 1959, about three years after the December 1956 setting of “The Outfit.” This device/media was known to be used by the CIA, not the FBI. The outer casing of this movie prop appears to be painted a blackish color, and the lid-emblem was replaced by one marked SVR and 550. This may be a misleading Easter egg alluding to black ops, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service “Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki” (a 1991 spin-off of the KGB), and the FTP error 550 code for “file not found.” Magnetic-wire spool recording was the go-to technology in the 50s, a German-made Minifon Mi-51 was even featured in 1954s “Dragnet,” but the American-made Dictaphone Dictet cassette-tape recorder might have been perfect as the “new gizmo the Feds came up with,” being first advertised in a January 1957 magazine print ad.
- La Fontaine says she’s lived in Chicago her whole life yet she has a French accent for some unknown reason.
- 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.
- Dylan O’Brien & Zoey Deutch collaborated again in Not Okay (2022).
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