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The film was produced by Universal Studios, Imagine Entertainment, 40 Arces & A Mule Filmworks and GH Two. It was directed by Spike Lee.
Spike Lee's films usually have some racial or other ideological theme to them. In Inside Man, the robbers objective is to uncover a war criminal, the robbers themselves are Jewish, which gives them a motive to rob the bank despite the negative repercussions to the public and themselves.