Bait is a 2000 comedy-crime film starring Jamie Foxx and David Morse. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua. Doug Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster flees with the gold. He buries it, then drinks and drives, gets caught for D.U.I. and is put in jail. He lies low in jail so that Bristol will not kill him. Eventually, Bristol tracks him to prison; however, Jaster, who has a... bad heart, for which he takes nitroglycerin, accidentally dies under interrogation. He tells Alvin Sanders , a petty con artist incarcerated for stealing shrimp, to tell his wife to go to the Bronx Zoo, and that there's "no place like home". Treasury agent Edgar Clenteen, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer.
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| Release date: | September 15, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Antoine Fuqua |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 119 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sean Ryerson |
| Music by: | Mark Mancina |
| Screenplay by: | Adam Scheinman, Tony Gilroy, Andrew Scheinman |
| Estimated budget: | $35,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Action |