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In 2001's HEIST, master thief "Joe Moore" (Gene Hackman) decides to call it quits after a profitable jewel store robbery in which his unmasked face is caught on camera. Trouble is, he's already committed to another, bigger job--stealing a gold shipment from a Swiss freight plane--for his fence & paymaster "Mickey" (Danny Devito). So Joe recruits a skilled team (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, and Rebecca Pidgeon) to assist him in the job.
In the film, "Don Pincus" (Ricky Jay) instinctively reads situations and does whatever it takes to circumvent trouble . . . even if that requires stepping in front of a moving car, which Don does at one point to buy time for the crew. "That move is an old con called the 'flopper and diver racket'," said Ricky Jay. "It was an old con played among the lower school of swindlers who would actually allow themselves to be hit by cars to make insurance money." Jay was also a technical consultant on the film.
This film was Ricky Jay's sixth outing with writer-director David Mamet. Actor-magician-illusionist Jay was also directed by Mamet in his smash Off Broadway one man show, "Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants" in 1996. Regarding HEIST, Jay said: "I've been lucky enough to work with David on a number of films. This one is different in that it is not a conventional con movie, it really is a heist movie and depicts a different strata of the criminal sub-culture". Jay drew a parallel between the renowned writer-director's unmistakable writing and his own background in the world of magic. Jay said: "My mentor, the late great Guy Vernon, who many people thought was the greatest sleight of hand artist in the world, is credited with saying, 'In the performance of good magic, the mind is led, step upon step, to ingeniously defeat its own logic'. That's the way I view David's writing".
Theodore Shapiro's score for the film has not had a release.
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Jay was a technical adviser on 2001's THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE. The film is set in pre-Revolutionary France, where a young aristocratic woman (Hilary Swank) left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace. Charles Shyer directed the film. David Newman's score was released by Varese Sarabande.
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Ricky Jay served as a consultant for OCEAN'S THIRTEEN. The 2007 film saw "Danny Ocean" (George Clooney) rounding up the boys once again for a third heist. Steven Soderbergh directed the third film in his "Ocean's" trilogy. David Holmes' score was released by Warner Bros.
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In THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD, a young man (Colin Hanks), much to the chagrin of his father (Tom Hanks), becomes the new assistant to an illusionist, "Buck Howard" (John Malkovich), in decline. Ricky Jay plays "Gil," Buck's manager. He also served as the magic technical consultant on the film, the last picture in which he would act in such a capacity.
Sean McGinly wrote and directed the film, which was based upon his own experiences as road manager for The Amazing Kreskin. Blake Neely's score for the film was released by La-La Land in 2016. The film grossed $750,000 in 76 theaters in the spring of 2009.
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