Professional thief Nick Barrow (Vince Vaughn) gets caught up in a crazy and potentially fatal web of police and criminal corruption.
Barrow's 16-year-old daughter Cate portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld for all intensive purposes is growing up alone, her mom is an alcoholic, her father Nick is a good soul who loves her, and wants her to have positive direction in her life, but his dealing with unsavory souls makes him a distant father for her safety.
When Nick and his crew steal a huge sum of evidence money, things really go sour, people get killed and Nick is forced to go on the run from both the law and the outlaws. Crocked cops and criminals will not hesitate harm or even kill his daughter to get to Nick.
While Nick and his daughter are on the lamb, they are forced to reconnect with each other, to be family again. While the conflict of losing his daughters love and respect for Nick loom, he must also find a way to prove his innocence for being framed for the murder of a cop and keeping his daughter safe.
"Breaking Bad" actor Jonathan Banks is Harper, one of the few people Nick can trust. When Nick tells Harper they need to talk, Harper replies;
"Besides your bad haircut, what do we need to talk about."
Vaughn's hair style in "Term Life" is a long departure from his other movies which makes the above line extremely funny.
Despite the movies adult themes and criminal violence, screen writer Andy Lieberman did a fantastic job in transforming Nick Thornborrow's graphic novel into a solid action movie with pertinent dialogue and a heart felt story. Three stars easy for the July 5 DVD release of "Term Life."
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