Ben Affleck's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, is The Town, an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's novel which he co-wrote with Peter Craig and Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air). Affleck stars in the film as a bank robber who becomes smitten with the teller (Rebecca Hall) of a bank he held up. Co-starring in the film are Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Blake Lively. This film gives Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit a second chance at an Oscar nom along with Salt.

The Town is directed by Ben Affleck and the MPAA has rated it R for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use.

The cast includes Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper and Titus Welliver.

Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang's latest job, when they briefly took a hostage--bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name... and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug....not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.