Director: Menhaj Huda
A disgraced Wall Street trader plots one of the largest bank heists in US history by recruiting a crew from inside the vault itself in Heist 88, Menhaj Huda's 2023 crime drama.
What is Heist 88 about?
Jeff Lightfoot loses his trading job and his standing after a scheme goes bad, and rather than start over clean he takes a position at First National Bank of Chicago with a different plan in mind. Over months he studies the vault's routines, quietly recruits a handful of junior employees who trust him, and builds a scheme to move a record-breaking sum out of the building without triggering a single alarm. The film follows the planning as closely as the execution, showing how greed and desperation talk otherwise cautious people into a plan built on borrowed time. Courtney B. Vance plays Lightfoot with a controlled, businesslike calm that makes the eventual unraveling feel inevitable rather than sudden.
Cast & crew
Courtney B. Vance leads the cast as Lightfoot, giving the character the same polish he'd have used to close a legitimate deal. Keith David plays an investigator circling the case from outside, while Keesha Sharp, Xavier Clyde, Bentley Green, Nican Robinson, and Precious Way fill out the crew and the bank staff drawn into the scheme.
Context & significance
Heist 88 is based on real events from a Chicago bank in the late 1980s, one of the largest recorded bank thefts of its era, though the film compresses and dramatizes the timeline for pacing. Director Menhaj Huda shoots the planning scenes with the patience of a procedural, favoring dialogue and quiet tension over shootouts or car chases. The period setting lets the film linger on late-1980s Chicago, from its trading floors to its working-class neighborhoods, as a backdrop for a plan that depends on everyone staying calm under pressure.
Where & how to watch
Heist 88 streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, and this page — synopsis, cast notes, and the FAQs below — is free to read for everyone, no account required. Pressing play only takes a free K-Time login, and the platform is built with a Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking viewers everywhere.