Themes: Crime Gone Awry, Faltering Friendships, Dishonor Among Thieves
Main Cast: Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, Stacy Edwards, Daniel London, Tim Curry
Release Year: 2000
Country: US
Run Time: 98 minutes
Plot
Founder of the Slamdance Film Festival Paul Rachman makes his feature-length debut with this tale of dishonor among thieves, solidly in the vein of 1994's Shallow Grave. When four friends (Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, Daniel London, and Stacy Edwards) travel to Buenos Aires to crash a wedding reception, they have more on their mind than just a lively evening of free drinks and the Chicken Dance. With the aid of ace thief Felix (Tim Curry), they steal a precious Degas statuette from the mansion owner hosting the shindig and abscond to L.A. Unfortunately, the objet d'art is nowhere to be found, and the covert dealer (Forest Whitaker) who's expecting it is none too pleased. He demands that they come up with the piece or $1,000,000 immediately. To solve their problem, the four compadres take out life insurance policies on each another and plot out which friend is going to die in order to proffer the heist money. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
Forest Whitaker - Ellington; George Lazenby - Carlo; Arly Jover; Jason Cairns; Peter Mark Vasquez; Octavia L. Spencer
Credit
Richard Hicks - Casting, Ronnie Yeskel - Casting, Richard L. Fox - First Assistant Director, Brian Tyler - Composer (Music Score), Alec Hammond - Production Designer, Claudio Rocha - Cinematographer, Matt Salinger - Producer, Randall Lawson - Sound/Sound Designer
