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Overview

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Director:
Jack N. Green
Writer:
Jim McGlynn (written by)
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Release Date:
18 April 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Swindlers. Scammers. Con-men. As American as apple-pie.
Plot:
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Has good moments and a certain charm, ultimately falls apart more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bill Paxton ... Bokky

Mark Wahlberg ... Pat O'Hara

Julianna Margulies ... Jean

James Gammon ... Double D
Luke Askew ... Boss Jack Costello

Nikki Deloach ... Kate (as Nikki DeLoach)
Michael Shaner ... Lip
Vincent Chase ... Bimbo

Danielle Keaton ... Shane (as Danielle Wiener)
Rance Howard ... Farmer
Jean Speegle Howard ... Bokky's Grandmother (as Jean Howard)
Andrew Porter ... Pincher

Robert Peters ... Farmer's Son
Jo Ann Pflug ... Boss Jack's Wife
John Bennes ... Hearse Driver
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong language and violence.
Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS

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Trivia:
In Jim McGlynn's original (Nicoll Fellowship-winning) screenplay, Pat died in Bokky's arms while convincing him, in his broken gypsy dialect, not to leave the traveller family. The ending was re-written on-location at the behest of Bill Paxton and Jack Green. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Pat calls Kate while on the road with Bokky. She picks up the phone at her parents living room. She wears a wrist watch with a shiny bracelet. Cut. Then the watch is gone, cut, then the watch is back again. more
Quotes:
Kate: Got some brass to you, don't ya? more
Movie Connections:
Features Every Which Way But Loose (1978) more
Soundtrack:
Black Assid more

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Has good moments and a certain charm, ultimately falls apart, 13 May 2000
Author: Cathy Young (cathyyoung63@aol.com) from Middletown, NJ

This could have been an interesting movie but it didn't live up to its promise. For one, the "traveller" culture of itinerant Irish grifters is explored very sketchily, if at all. The violent climax seems like an import from a totally different kind of movie. The only really entertaining scam was the one that Bokky and Pat pull on Jean, the bartender Bokky ends up falling for. The rest were either so simple as to be dull (the phony sealant, the trailers) or so complex you couldn't follow them (the scam involving the Turks). There are much better movies about con men; "House of Games" is probably my favorite.

The acting alone makes "Traveller" worth watching. Bill Paxton is very good as Bokky, a likeable rogue with a sincere face and an awakening conscience, and he credibly conveys his growing love for Jean; his anguish when he has unwittingly put her in grave danger is palpably and painfully real. Julianne Margulies brings warmth and spunk to her potrayal of Jean, and the romantic chemistry between her and Paxton is undeniable. Mark Wahlberg, in one of his first "real" roles, projects just the right mix of boyish vulnerability, charm (in the scenes where he's romancing Kate, the clan boss's daughter), and cool-dude moxie. As the old grifter "Double D," James Gammon is a lot of fun to watch whenever he's onscreen.

Unfortunately, the screenplay doesn't do enough to develop the two main characters. For instance, Bokky seems to have a good heart; yet he's been conning people for years (not even siphoning some extra cash from rich people for whom it's merely a drop in the bucket, but cheating poor and ignorant folk -- in some cases, cheating them out of their life's savings), and somehow it never bothered him until he met Jean. That doesn't make much sense. As for Pat, I think the film should have told us more about his life "on the outside." We gather that he's poor and doesn't have too many opportunities (though he's dressed nicely enough when he arrives for his father's burial), but it's still hard to understand exactly why he's so eager to be a part of the "family" and to join a lifestyle in which his choices, even about things as basic as whom to marry, will be severely restricted, or why he thinks it's so terrible that Bokky risks being excommunicated from the Travellers. (Bokky's on-the-road life certainly doesn't look like being "on top of the world" to me.) Pat's relationship with Kate is treated as an afterthought, maybe a plot device to give him a reason to come back to the Travellers camp.

Because of these flaws, the character development that could have been the strongest part of this movie never really gels. The shaky plot structure, especially toward the end, compounds the problems.

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