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Which actors play the brothers 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 are played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke.1