First Clip From Ben Affleck’s The Town – Starring Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm & Affleck Himself

Yahoo have released the first clip from Ben Affleck’s The Town. In the clip Jem (Jeremy Renner) informs Doug (Ben Affleck) that the hostage they took lives in their neighbourhood. I’m FULLY stoked for this film, it looks like an intense and gritty crime caper, it’s comfortably sitting in my top 5 anticipated movies left of 2010. I really like Ben Affleck as a director, his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone was a corker. The Town has a September 17th release date in the US and September 24th in the UK.

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. The film co-stars Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, and Chris Cooper.