Bait (film)

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Bait
Bait movie poster
Directed by	Antoine Fuqua
Produced by	Sean Ryerson
Written by	Andrew Scheinman Adam Scheinman Tony Gilroy
Starring	Jamie Foxx
Music by	Mark Mancina
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	September 15, 2000
Running time	119 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$35,000,000 (estimated)
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Bait is a 2000 action comedy starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse and Doug Hutchison. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster flees with the gold and is eventually caught.

Foxx plays Alvin Sanders, a petty con artist incarcerated with Jaster, who dies in prison from heart failure. Treasury agent Edgar Cleenton, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Cleenton to track and him and listen to all his conversations.