Masterminds is a 2016 crime comedy film based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery in North Carolina.

Directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey, it stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis.

After some awkward training in preparation for the robbery, the team has David go inside Loomis' vault and load the entire money supply into the company's van.

FBI Special Agent Scanlon and her partner identify David as the prime suspect, but have no idea of Steve's involvement.

David calls Steve, threatening to surrender himself to Interpol if he does not wire $6 million into his bank account within two days.

Kelly escapes, but Steve's two friends kidnap her, and he tells David to get a ticket to South America in exchange for her release.

[6] On June 30, 2014, Ken Marino, Kate McKinnon, Devin Ratray, Leslie Jones, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Ross Kimball joined the cast.

David Ghantt was a technical consultant, but due to outstanding court-ordered restitution for his part in the heist, he was not paid.

[14][15] On July 29, Galifianakis was spotted in a prisoner's costume during filming in a redressed street in downtown Asheville.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Mastermind's great cast and stranger-than-fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

"[28] On the other hand, Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars, stating that "If smart dumb comedies hold a place in your heart, you'll like 'Masterminds.'"

"[29] Richard Brody of The New Yorker also gave praise to the film, writing that "Yes, the comedy is funny—even when it's not laugh-out-loud funny, it's sparklingly inventive and charmingly loopy—but, above all, it has the religious intensity and spiritual resonance that marks all of Hess's other films, and it extends his world of ideas into wild new realms, extends his vision into darker corners of existence than he had formerly contemplated."

He also observed the filmmaking of Hess as "suggest[ing] a kinship with the transcendental cinema of Robert Bresson and Carl Theodor Dreyer. ...