What crime do the brothers plan in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead?

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Sidney Lumet in a tuxedo holds his Honorary Academy Award and smiles backstage at the 77th Annual Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background. — Sidney Lumet American director Sidney Lumet after receiving an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, 2005.

In the 2007 film Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the two brothers plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store. The plot is initiated by one brother, a financially strapped manager, who convinces his sibling to assist him in the heist, which ultimately results in disastrous consequences.1