Manny, Sid and Diego's Logan Lucky

Manny, Sid and Diego's Logan Lucky is a 2019 Australian-British crime black comedy film written and directed by Taika Waititi and was also written by Rebecca Blunt. This is the eighteenth installment in the Sonic Cinematic Universe and the film is a co-production between Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and New Zealand. The film stars Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, James McAvoy, Bradley Cooper, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Dafne Kaan, Jack Whitehall, Reese Witherspoon, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Adam DeVine, Keke Palmer, Jessie J, Nick Offerman, Stephanie Beatriz, Max Greenfield, Matthew McConaughey, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Alessandro Nivola, Ned Beatty, Octavia Spencer, Katherine Waterston and Chris Evans, it tells the story of The Herd and the Logan family, who plan to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Herd's "final heist" and must avoid getting caught by the FBI, The multi-narrative sequel completes Manny, Sid and Diego's "Heist trilogy" for Sonic Cinematic Universe, following Nightcrawler and Good Time. Principal photography took place during June 2018 in Georgia and North Carolina. with some scenes doing place and was shot in Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.
==Plot==
Jimmy Logan (James McAvoy) is laid off from his construction job at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. While visiting his ex-wife Bobbie Jo (Kelly Macdonald) to pick up their daughter Sadie (Oona Lawrence) for a beauty pageant rehearsal, he learns that Bobbie Jo and her new husband are moving to Lynchburg, making it even harder for Jimmy to visit. Jimmy goes to a bar run by his brother Clyde (Bradley Cooper), an Iraq War veteran who lost his hand during the war. The Herd (Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Dafne Kaan, Jack Whitehall, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Adam DeVine, Keke Palmer, Jessie J, Nick Offerman, Stephanie Beatriz and Max Greenfield) arrives helping out Clyde, until Max Chilblain (Colin Firth), a pretentious British businessman and NASCAR-team owner, unfortunately arrives and insults Clyde, leading to a fight with Jimmy, which Manny disrupts by setting fire to Max’s car. The next day, Jimmy reveals to The Herd and Clyde his plan to rob the Speedway, exploiting his knowledge of their pneumatic tube system for moving money. The Herd, Clyde and Jimmy recruit their sister Mellie (Reese Witherspoon), incarcerated safe-cracker Joe Bang (Matthew McConaughey), and Joe's dimwitted henchmen Sam and Fish (Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi). They plan to break Joe out of prison and return him once the heist is complete. Beck and Clyde intentionally gets himself sent to prison on a minor charge. Mellie, Sam, Fish, Peaches, Julian and Aisling infest the Speedway's tube system with painted cockroaches, determining which set of tubes to follow. While gathering supplies, Jimmy meets former schoolmate Sylvia (Katherine Waterston), who runs a mobile clinic in need of donations; Sylvia provides Jimmy, Manny, Sid and Diego with a tetanus shot, and the five strike up a conversation. Later, The Herd and Jimmy learns that construction at the speedway is being completed ahead of schedule, forcing them to mount the heist a week earlier, during the much busier Coca-Cola 600 race on Memorial Day weekend. Joe, Beck and Clyde arrange for fellow inmates to stage a riot, resulting in a lockdown to hide their absence. They escape hidden under a delivery truck. Mellie meets them in a Ford Shelby GT350 stolen from Bobbie Jo's husband (Alessandro Nivola). At the speedway, Sam and Fish blow up a generator and kill all credit card machines, forcing vendors to accept cash only. Joe and Buck improvises an explosive with bleach, sand paper, and a dietary salt substitute, which detonates within the pneumatic tube system, allowing the Herd and the crew to begin filling garbage bags with all the vendors' cash. Speedway staff notice smoke, from the tubes, and security guards investigate but are diverted by Manny, Jimmy and Earl (Naveen Andrews), one of Clyde's bar patrons. The airflow in the tube delivering the money is suddenly reversed, taking Clyde's prosthetic arm with it. On their way back to the prison, Buck, Clyde and Joe are recognized by Chilblain and his sponsored NASCAR driver Dayton White (Chris Evans). The heist is a success, and Jimmy makes it to his daughter's pageant in time to hear her perform his favorite song, Take Me Home, Country Roads." Jimmy then abandons the money and anonymously informs the police. Detective Frontieri (Octavia Spencer) investigates the heists in three Los Angeles, New York and both Georgia and North Carolina and dubbed "Manny, Sid and Diego's Three Heists" in the press. Due to the unwillingness of prison authorities to disclose the extent of the riot, the refuting of Chilblain's eyewitness account by White (disgruntled after crashing in the race from drinking some of Chilblain's sponsorship energy drink), and the speedway administration's satisfaction with the money's recovery and their insurance settlement, the case is closed after six months. Joe is released from prison and returns home to find a bag of money in his yard. Sylvia receives an anonymous envelope of money in the mail, as does one of the newly released inmates who helped instigate the riot. It is revealed that during the heist, Jimmy separated several bags of money from the rest, sending them to the local dump and collecting them later, along with Clyde's prosthetic hand; he left the rest for the police to find to discourage further investigation. Now working in a hardware store and having bought a house near his daughter and ex-wife's home, Jimmy happily reunites with his family at Clyde's bar and while farewelling to the Herd for helping out them. Sylvia arrives and shares a kiss with Jimmy as the rest of the gang share drinks, watched by Frontieri and also The Herd before leaving.
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