The Crew (2000)

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Director:

Michael Dinner

Writer:

Barry Fanaro

Stars:

Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Burt Reynolds	...	Joey 'Bats' Pistella
Dan Hedaya	...	Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
Seymour Cassel	...	Tony 'Mouth' Donato
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Detective Olivia Neal
Jennifer Tilly	...	Ferris 'aka Maureen' Lowenstein
Lainie Kazan	...	Pepper Lowenstein
Miguel Sandoval	...	Raul Ventana, Drug Lord
Jeremy Piven	...	Det. Steve Menteer
Casey Siemaszko	...	Young Bobby Bartellemeo
Matthew Borlenghi	...	Young Joey 'Bats' Pistella (as Matt Borlenghi)
Billy Jayne	...	Young Tony 'Mouth' Donato
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Young Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
Mike Moroff	...	Jorge
José Zúñiga	...	Escobar

Storyline

Four former made men, struggling to get by in a rundown Miami hotel, come up with a plot to drive out all of the young tenants that are slowly taking over the beach-front hotel and driving up their rent. Taking a man that was found dead on the beach, they arrange what appears to a mob hit and provide a note that says more killings are to occur. Unfortunately the old man they use turns out to be the senile father of a drug lord. The drug lord declares war on the killers of his father, thinking it was an action of his enemies. A stripper learns of the old men's involvement and threatens to squeal on them unless they kill her stepmother. Meanwhile, one man searches for his long-lost daughter, who is the investigating police officer, trying to divest herself from her crumb fellow officer and former boyfriend.

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Plot Keywords:

drug lord | drugs | hotel | beach | stripper | 

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Taglines:

It may be artificial, but it's still their turf.

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Genres:

Crime | Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, violence and langauge

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

25 August 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gasca

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$23,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$4,051,921 (USA) (25 August 2000)

Gross:

$13,019,253 (USA) (10 November 2000)

Company Credits

Production Co:

George Litto Productions, Sonnenfeld Josephson Worldwide Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jeremy Piven stated his thoughts about sucking Carrie-Anne Moss's toes for one scene in this movie as follows: "The question I'm asked the most is 'What's it like sucking Carrie-Anne's toes?' It was tremendous. She has exquisite toes. Her feet were primed from The Matrix, from a year of bouncing on them. We definitely nailed it in eight takes, and then I asked for an extra one, just in case."

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Goofs

When two of the gang members and the ladies are kidnapped from the retirement home, as they get in the car the weather is clear and the road is dry. However, in the next scene as they arrive at the dock the road is wet with small puddles - a clear sign that it rained between shots.

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Quotes

Mike "The Brick" Donatelli: It was like painting a portrait, like creating a beautiful work of art. Like, uh, Leonardo what-the-fuck?
Joey 'Bats' Pistella: The guy who did the Mona Lisa?
Mike "The Brick" Donatelli: Yeah, yeah. That's him.
Joey 'Bats' Pistella: That's a good drawing...
Mike "The Brick" Donatelli: It's a *very* good drawing...

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Connections

References Entertainment Tonight (1981)

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Soundtracks

"The Boss"
Written by James Brown, Charles Bobbit & Fred Wesley
Performed by James Brown

User Reviews

Light senior moments

So much promise, yet so little achievement was the enduring impression left on me after watching this comedy. A group of ageing ex-con artists conjure an imaginative, yet flawed plot to save their Miami retirement home from soaring rents by using the body of a dead neighbour to scare away potential residents. When the dead man's son (Sandoval) emerges to take vengeance on those responsible for his death, they use their collective criminal experience to dodge the attempted retributions.

Dreyfuss, Reynolds, Cassel and Hedaya probably weren't quite old enough to convince me that they were geriatrics, relying on props to affect the age (hearing aids etc) although Reynolds did a great impression of someone who'd lost his marbles. His near-death epiphanies lead to several hair-brained schemes while Dreyfuss' main angle is assisting the local police investigating the death, the female detective (Moss) unaware the she is his daughter. She mistakes his kindly advances as those of a dirty old man, while Dreyfuss is trying to work out how to confess to the ruse, and still reconcile with the daughter neither knew existed. Moss is stunning and it's almost inconceivable that the Pivster (Piven) is both her detective partner and boyfriend from whom she's estranged. Must be low self esteem...

Slapstick, sentimental comedy has its moments and an appealing cast but never quite hit the notes I was expecting, all things considered. Easy, lightweight viewing.