Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’ Trailer with Austin Butler & Zoe Kravitz

Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’ Trailer with Austin Butler & Zoe Kravitz

by Alex Billington
May 21, 2025
Source: YouTube

“You run away from what you’re afraid of? Then it owns you.” Sony Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for the up-to-date crime comedy thriller called Caught Stealing, set in New York City in the 1990s. This is the 9th feature film directed by NYC-based filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, and it’s one of his first all-out comedies. Set to arrive in theaters at the end of August in just a few months. “He was just supposed to watch the cat. Now he’s running for his f**king life.” Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a unsafe struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; but he has no idea why. Starring Austin Butler as Hank, with Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio aka “Bad Bunny”, and featuring Carol Kane. This looks like mad crazy NYC fun! Running around & getting into all kinds of chaos on the streets of the Big Apple. Enjoy.

Here’s the first official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s movie Caught Stealing, from Sony’s YouTube:

Adapted from the book by Charlie Huston. Burned-out Hank Thompson (starring Austin Butler), once a hotshot high school baseball prospect, turned unlucky alcoholic, going-nowhere bartender mistakenly gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York City. It turns out that the cat Hank’s neighbor left in his care is sitting on a secret. Hidden at the bottom of its cage is an crucial key wanted by everyone: a sadistic cop, Russian mobsters, a Samoan hit man, and a pair of psycho brothers who dress in leather gear. Caught Stealing is directed by the acclaimed American producer / filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, director of the movies Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah, Mother!, and The Whale previously, as well as a producer on many other film projects. The screenplay is written by Charlie Huston, based on the book of the same name also by Charlie Huston. Produced by Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden, Ari Handel, and Darren Aronofsky. Sony Pictures will release Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing movie in theaters nationwide starting August 29th, 2025 at the end of the summer. Who wants to watch?

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