Austin Butler & Zoë Kravitz Run for Their Lives in First Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing”
The first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper Caught Stealing has arrived, and it’s doozy. Austin Butler stars as Hank Thompson, a former high school baseball phenom turned bartender at a New York City dive. But don’t cry for Hank, his life is pretty good—New York is the greatest city on Earth, of course, and he’s got an amazing girlfriend named Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz), so things are going pretty well all things considered.
Yet there’s a significant vibe shift when Hank, being a nice guy, agrees to watch after his punk neighbor Russ’s (Matt Smith) cat. It turns out that Russ is involved in some highly sketchy, very dangerous business with a host of unsavory types, including Hasidic, Puerto Rican, and Russian mobsters. All of these folks are taking a run at Hank (he gets punched repeatedly throughout the trailer), but he hasn’t the foggiest clue why. He’s gotta find out, and fast, before he becomes a casualty in a war he doesn’t even understand.
The cast for Aronofsky’s caper is incredible—joining Butler, Kravitz, and Smith are Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Regina King, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny), and Carol Kane. Aronofsky directs from a script by Charlie Huston, based on the books Huston wrote.
This is Aronofsky’s first film since his 2022 drama The Whale, which netted Brendan Fraser an Oscar for Best Actor. At CinemaCon, Aronofsky said that with Caught Stealing, he wanted to make “something that was a lot of fun.” From this first look at the trailer, it appears he’s pulled it off.
Check out the trailer below. Caught Stealing hits theaters on August 29.
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Featured image: Zoë Kravitz and Austin Butler in “Caught Stealing.” Courtesy Sony Pictures.
