CAUGHT STEALING Trailer: Austin Butler & Zoë Kravitz Survive 1990s NYC in Darren Aronofsky’s Gritty Caper

After breaking moviegoers’ hearts with his Oscar-winning melodrama The Whale, Darren Aronofsky returns to his New York roots for his ninth feature. Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler as a bartender and former baseball player living in the East Village during the 1990s, who unwittingly becomes the target of multiple gangs and has to fight for survival in uncharted territory. The film also stars Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schrieber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Carol Kane, and Benito A Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny). Charlie Huston penned the screenplay based on his novel of the same name. The first trailer has arrived ahead of its August 29 release in theaters.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

Watch the trailer below.

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