Overview

• Sony will release Caught Stealing in theaters on Aug. 29.
• Austin Butler leads as Hank Thompson, an ex–baseball player turned East Village bartender pulled into a dangerous hunt for a mysterious key after agreeing to cat‑sit.
• Variety and Deadline praise Butler’s commanding performance and describe Aronofsky’s brisk, darkly comic crime-thriller energy with nods to Scorsese’s After Hours.
• Set in the late 1990s, the film adapts Charlie Huston’s 1998 novel with a script by the author, with Matthew Libatique’s cinematography and real New York locales shaping the texture.
• The ensemble features Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny), Griffin Dunne and Carol Kane, as Butler’s immersive prep included sleeping on the set apartment.