Parker (2013 film)

Directed by	Taylor Hackford
Produced by	Les Alexander
	Steven Chasman
	Taylor Hackford
	Sidney Kimmel
	Jonathan Mitchell
Screenplay by	John J. McLaughlin
Based on	Flashfire
	by Donald E. Westlake
Starring	Jason Statham
	Jennifer Lopez
Music by	David Buckley
Cinematography	J. Michael Muro
Editing by	Andrew Weisblum
Studio	Incentive Filmed Entertainment
	Sierra Pictures
	Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Distributed by	FilmDistrict
Release date(s)	January 25, 2013
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$35 million
Box office	$46.3 million

PLOT

Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief, who specializes in planning big robberies. His mentor Hurley (Nick Nolte) asks him to do a five-man job with a crew he doesn't know, which consists of Melander (Michael Chiklis), Carlson (Wendell Pierce), Ross (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Hardwicke (Michah Hauptman). The job, which involves taking the gate money from a state fair, is successful, but a man is needlessly killed by a fire set as a distraction. Parker, unimpressed with the professional standards of the other crew members, refuses to participate in another robbery that could net them millions. Needing his share of the loot to finance the bigger job, and fearing he might take revenge, they shoot him and leave him to die by a lake. Not as badly injured as the other crooks believed, he is found by a family who take him to the hospital, where he chokes out a male nurse, steals his uniform, and escapes. He robs a check cashing store to get funds, shooting one proprietor in the leg, and stealing a woman's car parked outside. Parker tells Hurley that he wants to go after Melander for double-crossing him, who he later discovers is in Palm Beach, Florida for another heist. The crew learn that he is alive, and uses their mob connections to get a hit-man named Kroll (Daniel Bernhardt) to go after Parker. He tries to kidnap Parker's girlfriend Claire (Emma Booth). She narrowly escapes and goes into hiding at a Fish Camp. Hurley, who is Claire's father, is worried and suggests Parker run away with her, but he refuses, completely intent on revenge against Melander.

Parker travels to Palm Beach and poses as a Texan named Daniel Parmitt. Leslie Rodgers (Jennifer Lopez) is a depressed, unsuccessful real-estate agent living with her mother (Patti LuPone), and struggling financially after a divorce. She is thrilled when Parker (as Parmitt) appears to become interested in her properties, because she is desperate for a commission. Leslie soon becomes suspicious when Parker only takes interest in a house that a man named Rodrigo is renting. In reality, Rodrigo is Melander, and is staying in this house with the crew in anticipation of a $50 million jewelry auction from which they plan to steal jewels. Leslie becomes suspicious and eventually finds out that Daniel Parmitt is a fake identity. She offers her knowledge of the area as help to Parker, if he will give her a commission. He considers it after making her strip to make sure she isn't wearing a wire. Together, they plan to steal the jewels from Melander after he robs them from the auction. Leslie makes a pass at Parker, but he remains distant, though seemingly attracted to her.

Before the auction, Melander's crew disguise themselves as movers to plan their heist. They soon learn that Parker is in Palm Beach, and send Kroll to kill him. After a bloody fight, Kroll stabs Parker through the hand, but ends up falling from a balcony and dying. The next morning, Palm Beach Sheriff's Deputy Jake Fernandez (Bobby Cannavale) arrives with questions for Leslie about Daniel after learning that she was in business with him. She is shocked when she discovers a bloody Parker hiding in her house, with her mother's full knowledge and permission. At Parker's request, she contacts Claire, who comes to stitch up Parker's wounds, and the subsequent conversation makes it clear to Leslie that she is the woman in his life.

The crew successfully steal the jewels at the auction, and swim back to the house, where Parker has already arrived. Worried that Parker might fail to get the jewels, Leslie makes her way to the house and begins snooping around the garden. She is found and taken inside, where the crew abuse and grill her with questions, assuming she is working with Parker. Parker kills one of the crew members when he goes outside, and they begin to panic. Melander finds Parker and a fight ensues. Carlson starts to molest Leslie, and she shoots him multiple times with a gun she noticed under the table that Parker had planted there earlier. Parker, in spite of his wounds, is able to kill Melander. All members of the crew end up dead. Parker and Leslie arrange for the jewels to be hidden and for her to receive her cut. She tells him she knows now she never did have a chance to be with him, and they part ways--Parker showing some regret as she leaves. Six months later, Parker goes to Chicago and kills the syndicate boss who hired Kroll to kill him. A year later, Leslie receives a hefty box in the mail containing bundles of hundred dollar bills. In the final scene before the credits, the tomato farmers who saved Parker's life are talking to somebody about how they got all this money that changed their lives, and they credit the stranger they rescued, who they think was an angel sent to test them.