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Overview

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5.4/10   1,797 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Po Bronson (novel)
Jon Favreau (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 October 2002 (Russia) more
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Tagline:
When things get odd... The odd get even
Plot:
Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, because he feels disconnected with the values about work he learned from his father... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Nice try but no cigar. more (28 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Adam Garcia ... Andy Kasper

Rosario Dawson ... Alisa

Jake Busey ... Darrell Claxton
Enrico Colantoni ... Francis Benoit

Ethan Suplee ... Curtis 'Tiny' Reese

Anjul Nigam ... Salman Fard

Gregory Jbara ... Hank
Dan Butler ... Lloyd Acheson
Linda Hart ... Mrs. 'B'

Shiva Rose ... Torso

Chandra West ... Robin

Rob Benedict ... Willy (as Robert Patrick Benedict)

Heather Paige Kent ... Claudia Goss

Stoney Westmoreland ... Link

John Rothman ... Ben (as John M. Rothman)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The First $20 Million (USA) (working title)
The Ironmen (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for language and sexual content.
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105 min
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Andy moves into Mrs. B house she puts him in room number 2. (You see the number on the door.) He then goes to the bathroom and meets Alisa and introduces himself and says he lives in number 3. Alisa says she lives in 2. After Alisa makes the prototype case she enters her room, but it's room 3. more
Quotes:
[the guys are meeting at a restaurant after their design was "stolen"]
Andy: Guess what guys? I had a VISION!
Tiny: [skeptically] That involved third-world school kids?
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References 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) more
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Go Get It Now more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Nice try but no cigar., 5 January 2003
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Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA

"The First $20 Million..." is an easy-going comedy with a romantic bent which sticks Garcia out in front as a computer geek who aspires to be another Steve Jobs by working with some other geeks who are trying to build a $99 computer....er, something like that. A happy-go-nowhere little flick which is too uncool for the young demographic and too young for adults, I'm guessing it's a movie in search of a market. Hard to swallow and hard to follow with laughs which are too few and too far between, "The First $20 Million..." is an uninspired albeit earnest novel knock-off which is best saved for broadcast. (C)

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