Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)

Director:

Chris Ver Wiel

Writer (WGA):

Chris Ver Wiel (written by)

Release Date:

21 December 2001 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Getting the alias was half the battle. Surviving it is the other.

Plot:

Cletis Tout is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hit man who sees everything in terms of the movies and a twenty year old diamond heist. |

Plot Keywords:

Heist | Diamond | Independent Film

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Christian Slater	...	Trevor Allen Finch
Tim Allen	...	Critical Jim
Portia de Rossi	...	Tess Tobias
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Micah Tobias
Billy Connolly	...	Dr. Mike Savian
Peter MacNeill	...	Detective Tripp (as Peter MacNeil)
Bill MacDonald	...	Detective Delaney
Richard Chevolleau	...	Detective Horst
Elias Zarou	...	Detective Rafferty
RuPaul	...	Ginger Markum
Joseph Scoren	...	Rowdy Virago
Eugene Lipinski	...	Falco
Shawn Doyle	...	Crow Gollotti
Louis Di Bianco	...	Nimble
Tony Nappo	...	Fife

Also Known As:

Cletis Tout (Canada: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some violence and sexuality.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Spain:13 | USA:R | Canada:A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Fireworks Entertainment

Trivia:

Sarah Michelle Gellar was offered the Portia de Rossi role, but turned it down.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Homing pigeons can only fly in one direction, not round trips.

Quotes:

Rowdy Virago: You two cheesedicks couldn't improvise a fart after eating a three bean salad.

Movie Connections:

Features Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

3 star movie, no bad if you don't expect much

***** Excellent movie, lives up to expecatations and then some

**** Decent movie, has few shortcomings, but could have been better

*** Not bad only if you don't have any high expectations

** Maybe a movie to watch while doing chores

* I'd rather be at work for no pay than watching this film

You can read the back of the box if you want to know what it is about, so instead of me reiterating that, I'll just give you all my opinion. It is a B rated film in my opinion which stars Christian Slater. Tim Allen plays a different character, a hitman of some sort, but yet still finds many times to insert his brand of humor in the flick. Slater plays about the same kind of average role in this one that he always seems to play in most movies, meaning he doesn't hurt the film, but yet he doesn't oooh and ahhhh us either.

Basically, Slater is a prison escapee who assumes a false identity of a man that the mafia thought they had taken out. So now Slater finds himself on the run, claiming that of all the dead people who could steal an identity from, he had to choose the one dead guy that everyone wanted to kill. So yes, there is a bit of attempted comedy in it, but for the most part it is dry and not laugh out loud funny. Then there is the girl, you know, the girl that the escapee falls for, the girl that at first is too good for him, but who then later begins to warm up to him.

All in all, if you rent this expecting it to be just a B rated type of movie, meaning, not that good but not too horribly bad, you won't be disappointed. I'd give it 3 stars on my scale.