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The Town

film by Affleck [2010]

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    • Ben Affleck
      In Ben Affleck: Film directing

      …next effort behind the camera, The Town (2010), casting himself as the head of a crew of Boston bank robbers. Affleck later directed and starred in Argo (2012), the true story of a fake film production that provided cover for a CIA rescue mission during the Iran hostage crisis. For…

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      • Jon Hamm
        In Jon Hamm: The Town and Million Dollar Arm

        …films, notably the crime thriller The Town (2010); Friends with Kids (2011), which featured Westfeldt, who also wrote and directed the romantic comedy; and Million Dollar Arm (2014), a drama in which he portrayed a sports agent. He later was cast as a government spy in the comedy Keeping Up…

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      • Jeremy Renner
        In Jeremy Renner: Career

        … in the bank heist drama The Town (2010), Renner took on a series of action movie roles, starting in 2011 with Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (2011).

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