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Movie Night!
Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Tomorrow is movie night and we have an interesting selection. I didn’t even know this movie existed until a couple of weeks ago. Some time ago, Heather and I stumbled across an Argentinian film called Nine Queens which was a con-artists heist movie with a lot of twists and turns. As soon as it ended, I exclaimed that someone should make an american version of it, because it was truly entertaining, exciting, had a feel similar to a lot of con-artist/heist films in english. It is in the same vein as Ocean’s Eleven, Snatch, the Italian Job and other such light hearted crime films. So now here’s Criminal, which according to Roger Ebert, is an almost exact duplicate, which means it should be pretty good.
Con man Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) teams up with newbie Rodrigo (Diego Luna) for a heist that’s a little bigger than his usual projects: They’ll filch an antique currency note from a customer when he blows into town at the casino where Gaddis trolls for victims. But it seems the pair will need help, which lessens Gaddis’s take. Plus, his sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal) seems dead-set on spoiling his criminal fun.
We’ll start the movie at 7:45 as usual (though if I can convince Derek to come, we may have to push the start time back a bit). This is based on such a good, un-heard of film, you should really consider coming.
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