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Release Date:
23 November 2005 (USA)
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Tagline:
Thick Thieves. Thin Ice. more
Plot:
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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(11 articles)
Lionsgate Music names Tracy McKnight as VP, Film Music
(From BusinessofCinema. 4 October 2009, 7:03 AM, PDT)
Harold Ramis Takes Us Back to Year One
(From MovieWeb. 30 September 2009, 8:35 AM, PDT)
(From BusinessofCinema. 4 October 2009, 7:03 AM, PDT)
Harold Ramis Takes Us Back to Year One
(From MovieWeb. 30 September 2009, 8:35 AM, PDT)
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Tepid and unfocused caper
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Cusack | ... | Charlie |
 | Billy Bob Thornton | ... | Vic |
 | Lara Phillips | ... | Rusti |
 | Bill Noble | ... | Culligan |
| Brad Smith | ... | Ronny |
 | Ned Bellamy | ... | Sidney |
 | Connie Nielsen | ... | Renata |
 | Mike Starr | ... | Roy Gelles |
| T.J. Jagodowski | ... | Officer Tyler |
 | Meghan Maureen McDonough | ... | Francie |
| Tab Baker | ... | Dennis |
| Frank Gallo | ... | Restaurateur |
 | William Dick | ... | Manager |
 | Oliver Platt | ... | Pete |
 | David Pasquesi | ... | Councilman Williams |
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and sexuality/nudity.
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Runtime:
USA:92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (British Columbia/Ontario) |
Canada:18A (Alberta/Manitoba/Nova Scotia) |
Norway:15 |
UK:15 |
Finland:K-15 |
Netherlands:12 |
France:U |
Singapore:M18 |
Iceland:16 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Malaysia:(Banned) |
Argentina:13 |
Norway:11 |
Australia:MA |
Germany:16 |
USA:R (certificate #39360) |
South Korea:15 |
USA:R
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The weather got to be so bad during shooting, that Harold Raimis almost had to close to production for a day, which would've ended his perfect record of never losing a shooting day.
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Continuity: Near the beginning of the film as Charlie is leaving Vic's car, he goes to grab the bag of money while holding an umbrella in his right hand, in the next subsequent shot he is holding the umbrella in his left hand, and then in the following shot it is back in his right hand.
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Quotes:
Renata:
[answers phone] Hello?
Charlie Arglist: Renata?
Renata: Charlie.
Charlie Arglist: Listen. You were right. Vic and I have been skimming.
Renata: Well, duh!
Charlie Arglist: I think Roy Gelles must have found out, and I think he might have killed Vic.
Renata: That's terrible!
Charlie Arglist: So I was thinking it might be best if I left town, and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me.
Renata: You have the money?
Charlie Arglist: What? Which?
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Charlie Arglist: Renata?
Renata: Charlie.
Charlie Arglist: Listen. You were right. Vic and I have been skimming.
Renata: Well, duh!
Charlie Arglist: I think Roy Gelles must have found out, and I think he might have killed Vic.
Renata: That's terrible!
Charlie Arglist: So I was thinking it might be best if I left town, and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me.
Renata: You have the money?
Charlie Arglist: What? Which?
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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While I was never bored by this film, ultimately it failed to come together in any kind of a compelling fashion. Basically, it's a heist comedy with some really rough dialog and violence added in to make the whole thing seem important or heavy. Despite all the blood and so forth, it ends up being a rather silly buddy comedy. John Cusack fails to give a performance that would generate any great interest or sympathy, and Oliver Platt gives a performance that is awful, studied, and unfunny, pretty much ruining any chance of the film being particularly good. The writing is enough to betray Lara Phillips and Billy Bob Thornton (who seems to do every caper film these days, good or bad) without any help from the actors, because their characters are completely predictable.
I have little else to say here about it. I would have rated it even lower, but I really enjoyed the brief scene with Randy Quaid as a menacing mobster who feels like a loser. He had more character in that 5 minute scene than anybody else in the movie did with much more time. This movie really offers no surprises, and would probably only please someone who had very little experience with caper films. It's like the sickly cousin of "Fargo." Avoid it unless you are a John Cusack completist.