Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 American crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Kelly Masterson, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. The film unfolds in a nonlinear narrative, going back and forth in time, and follows the aftermath of a failed jewelry store robbery organized by two brothers and its impact on their family.