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21 October 1988 (USA)
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Dealing with the mob is always a gamble.
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Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid to take the rap for a murder...
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Italian American
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Hotel Room
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3 wins
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1 nomination
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(15 articles)
Discuss: When an Actor's Look Gets in the Way
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Three Years Ago Today, The Prestige...
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(From Cinematical. 22 October 2009, 1:48 PM, PDT)
Three Years Ago Today, The Prestige...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Don Ameche | ... | Gino |
 | Joe Mantegna | ... | Jerry |
 | Robert Prosky | ... | Joseph 'Don Giuseppe' Vincent |
| J.J. Johnston | ... | Frankie |
| Ricky Jay | ... | Mr. Silver |
| Mike Nussbaum | ... | Mr. Green |
| Jack Wallace | ... | Repair Shop Owner |
| Dan Conway | ... | Butler |
 | Willo Hausman | ... | Miss Bates (as Willo Varsi Hausman) |
 | Gail Silver | ... | Housemaid |
| Len Hodera | ... | Ramone |
| Josh Conescu | ... | Bellenza |
 | Adam Bitterman | ... | Marcotti |
 | Jack Merrill | ... | No Pair (as Merrill Holtzman) |
| William Novelli | ... | Willie |
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100 min
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First cinema feature of Felicity Huffman.
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Continuity: After they leave the airport, Jerry and Gino stop to talk with Billy Drake. Then Gino stays in front of the others, holding the overcoats, with Billy on his left-hand side and Jerry on his right. In the next shot Billy appears holding the overcoats and leading Gino with his right hand to the car. For this to be possible it would be necessary that them both had changed their places.
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This is a quiet, enjoyable film with Mantegna playing Mantegna, the nervy, edgy man who thinks he is smarter than everyone else but needs to go back to school for a few more lessons. He is saved by Ameche, a little man who plays a fool to get by in a dangerous world, never letting anyone know if it is an act or real. He lets the cat out of the bag in the bath house scene, when he opens his mouth and out comes this magnificent version of "Return to me" but in Italian.
The film has one problem once the pair arrive in Tahoe, Mantegna passing the gentle shoe shine man off as a Capo. It's quite funny to watch everyone bow and scrape in those scenes from the arrival at the airport until they settle into their suite, but after that Mamet has a problem. Where do he go from here? The ending is predictable, but any other would have chased patrons out of the theater in anger.