No Sudden Move

In NO SUDDEN MOVE, an automotive executive has a secret report describing plans for a car part that can limit car pollution. The executive is hiding it from his bosses and trying to sell it to bigger car companies eager to bury the report because in the 1950s, those corporations hadn't yet admitted that burning gasoline causes air pollution. Curtis Goynes (Don Cheadle), fresh out of prison, and  the dim-witted  bad guy Ronald Russo (Benicio Del Toro) are hired to baby-sit the family of Matt Wertz (David Harbour), a car company accountant, while Charley (Kieran Culkin) drives Matt to steal the document out of his boss' safe. Matt is planning to leave his wife for his boss' secretary, Paula (Frankie Shaw), complicating the plot. After someone dies by gunshot, Curtis realizes he can make far more money peddling the document higher on the food chain. Multiple double crosses ensue, the police play a corrupt role, and a racist, anti-Semitic White automotive executive demonstrates that he and others like him are calling the shots in American society, without regard for the law.  At the heart of this heist story is a series of other crimes more far-reaching than holding a suburban Detroit family hostage. The movie suggests that evacuating inner cities of minority populations to make way for highways and office parks, red-lining, gentrification, and other racism-based programs implemented across the country were and continue to be part of boosting an American economy that depended at least partly on the widespread use of cars and trucks.