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The Producers ***** (1968, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars) – Classic Movie Review 1942
Writer-director Mel Brooks’s inspired 1968 first film is a wonderfully tasteless look at the devilish machinations behind the staging of a Broadway flop. It’s still guaranteed to delight and offend in equal quantities. The Zero […]
Chasers ** (1994, Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 1737
Director Dennis Hopper’s 1994 comedy drama stars Tom Berenger and William McNamara as bickering US Navy lawmen, who escort a beautiful troublesome female prisoner (Erika Eleniak) to prison in Charleson. She plays to do anything to […]
Heartbreakers *** (2001, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 1716
Director David Mirkin’s 2001 movie stars Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Max and Page Conners, a mother and daughter who pair up as con team to swindle rich bachelors out of their fortunes, using […]
Nine Queens **** (2000, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice) – Classic Movie Review 1576
Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls star as Marcos and Juan, a couple of conmen who join forces to pull off a swindle involving a sheet of rare counterfeit stamps. They’re trying to con a stamp collector into buying the fakes […]
Shooting Fish *** (1997, Stuart Townsend, Dan Futterman, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1490
Writer-director Stefan Schwartz’s 1997 British comedy stars Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman as Jez and Dylan, a couple of orphaned con-men who join up with their posh office temp Georgie (Kate Beckinsale) to scam enough […]
Boiler Room **** (2000, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ron Rifkin, Ben Affleck, Scott Caan) – Classic Movie Review 296
‘Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.’ – Jim Young. Writer-director Ben Younger’s 2000 incisive and timely condemnation of the get-rich-quick, tread-on-anybody yuppie lifestyle Boiler Room has its […]