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Overview
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Release Date:
7 August 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Believe Everything Except Your Eyes more
Plot:
A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino. full summary | add synopsis
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Boxing
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Conspiracy
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Assassination
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Casino
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Murder
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Awards:
1 win
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2 nominations
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The Eye That Lies
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Nicolas Cage | ... | Rick Santoro |
 | Gary Sinise | ... | Commander Kevin Dunne |
 | John Heard | ... | Gilbert Powell |
 | Carla Gugino | ... | Julia Costello |
 | Stan Shaw | ... | Lincoln Tyler |
 | Kevin Dunn | ... | Lou Logan |
| Michael Rispoli | ... | Jimmy George |
| Joel Fabiani | ... | Charles Kirkland |
 | Luis Guzmán | ... | Cyrus (as Luis Guzman) |
| David Anthony Higgins | ... | Ned Campbell |
 | Mike Starr | ... | Walt McGahn |
 | Tamara Tunie | ... | Anthea |
 | Chip Zien | ... | Mickey Alter |
| Michaella Bassey | ... | Tyler's Party Girl #2 |
| Paul Joseph Bernardo | ... | Casino Security #1 |
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MPAA:
Rated R for some violence.
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Runtime:
98 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Philippines:PG-13 |
Iceland:16 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Brazil:14 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Italy:T |
Mexico:B |
Netherlands:16 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) (cut) |
Singapore:PG (original rating) (cut) |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Canada:14A |
Canada:G (Quebec)
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Trivia:
The role of Commander Kevin Dunne was originally written for and offered to 'Will Smith'.
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Goofs:
Continuity: After receiving the bloodstained $100 bill, Rick puts it in his inner pocket. When he takes it out again, he gets it from the left hip pocket of his jacket
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Quotes:
Kevin Dunne:
Terri likes to talk to me during sex. Last night she called me from the hotel.
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Soundtrack:
Fiesta Mexicana
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This is a wonderful experience. Never mind that the acting is poor and the story weak --that was never the point. This film was made because DePalma knows how to make his camera dance and wanted to make a film based on that notion.
A central question in most art concerns the role of the viewer. This dominated easel painting, then was the center of evolution of the novel and now sits at the core of thought about film. Is the viewer an omniscient God, or can the viewer be fooled like a person? Is the viewer a passive observer, or does she `walk' with the participants as an invisible character? So many clever questions.
DePalma thinks the camera is a whole new thing, The camera is a type of character, part narrator, part actor, part god. It can lie, be fooled, search curiously, document, play jokes. So this is a film about the camera's eyes. `Snake' both because the camera can snake around following Cage, going places that Cage cannot, but also `snake' because the camera sees with forked tongue.
So we have one seemingly continuous shot of the key scene, which is played first from Cage's perspective, then the fighter's, the Navy guy, the Girl, then the cop again, and finally the `flying eye.' Along the way, every eye trick DePalma can think of is woven in:
--The girl's glasses are crushed so she sees less than the audience
--The whole mess is about what a satellite sees
--The casino has 1000 cameras which our own eyes coopt
--The thing is framed by the TV eye
--God-like, we scan over several hotel rooms while Cage and Sinese are stuck in the hallway maze
--Splitscreen simultaneity
--The whole thing is in real time, as if you were living in the action
This is masterfully intellectual. See it. Forget the story.