Bait

Bait
Bait movie poster
Directed by	Antoine Fuqua
Produced by	Sean Ryerson
Written by	Andrew Scheinman Adam Scheinman Tony Gilroy
Starring	Jamie Foxx
Music by	Mark Mancina
Studio	Castle Rock Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 15, 2000
Running time	119 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$51,000,000 [1]
Gross revenue	$15,325,969 [2]

Bait is a 2000 criminal-comedy film starring Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Plot

Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster (who was told that nobody would get hurt) flees with the gold. He buries it, then drinks and drives, gets caught for DUI and is put in jail. He lies low in jail so that Bristol will not kill him.

Eventually, Bristol tracks him to prison; however, Jaster, who has a bad heart, for which he takes nitroglycerin, accidentally dies under interrogation. He tells Alvin Sanders (Foxx), a petty con artist incarcerated for stealing shrimp, to tell his wife (who is, unbeknownst to him, dead) to go to the Bronx Zoo, and that there's "no place like home".

Treasury agent Edgar Clenteen, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Clenteen to track Sanders and listen to his conversations.

Soundtrack

A soundtrack was released on September 12, 2000 by Warner Bros. Records featuring rap and R&B music. The soundtrack made it #49 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Cast

• Jamie Foxx as Alvin Sanders
• David Morse as Edgar Clenteen
• Doug Hutchison as Bristol
• Kimberly Elise as Lisa Hill
• David Paymer as Agent Wooly
• Mike Epps as Stevie Sanders
• Robert Pastorelli as John Delano Jaster
• Jamie Kennedy as Agent Blum
• Nestor Serrano as Agent Boyle
• Kirk Acevedo as Ramundo
• Jeffrey Donovan as Julio
• Megan Dodds as Agent Walsh
• Tia Texada as Tika

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External links

• Bait at the Internet Movie Database

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