 the old man and the gun adapted from david grann s new yorker article the old man and the gun tells the story of forrest tucker the selfstyled houdini whose many audacious prison breaks included an alcatraz flight in a homemade kayak and whose last robbery was committed when he was 79 focussing on tucker s crimespree with his geriatric band of brothers the overthehillgang who long evaded both the fbi and an increasingly frustrated detective john hunt casey affleck this is a brilliantly entertaining crime caper film director david lowery featured festivals bfi london film festival 