Austin Butler is taking fans back to the ‘90s in his new film Caught Stealing.

The Darren Aronofsky-directed movie hit theaters on Friday, August 29, and features a screenplay from Charlie Huston, who authored the book series of the same name. The story follows Hank (Butler), a baseball prodigy turned bartender who finds himself in hot water when his punk rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to watch his cat, Bud, for a few days. What transpires is a series of events that land Hank in the middle of a slew of gangsters who are determined to take him down.

“As far as what scared me, this is different from anything that I’ve been doing recently,” Butler told USA Today in an August 2025 interview. “In my previous few films, I’ve been exploring characters who are quite different from me,

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