Out of Sight

19981998
RR
2h 3m

George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Nancy Allen, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Albert Brooks, Dennis Farina, Steve Zahn, Viola Davis, and Luis Guzmán in Out of Sight (1998)

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Comedy Crime Drama

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Director
- Steven Soderbergh
Writers
- Elmore Leonard(novel)
- Scott Frank(screenplay)
Stars

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 13 wins & 15 nominations total

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George Clooney in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney in Out of Sight (1998)

Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney and Ving Rhames in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Keith Loneker, and Isaiah Washington in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney in Out of Sight (1998)

Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (1998)

The Limey

7.0

Three Kings

7.1

Get Shorty

6.9

Traffic

7.6

Intolerable Cruelty

6.2

Intolerable Cruelty

Karen Sisco

7.2

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

7.2

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Solaris

6.2

Michael Clayton

7.2

Michael Clayton

King of the Hill

7.4

King of the Hill

The Underneath

6.1

The Peacemaker

6.0

A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in. —<97fa043@dvc.edu>

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Taglines
- Opposites attract.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language and some strong violence
Parents guide

Trivia
Sandra Bullock almost got the part of Karen Sisco, but director Steven Soderbergh was against it. He said: "I spent some time with Clooney and Bullock, and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for the wrong movie. I'm sure they could do a movie together. But not an Elmore Leonard movie." Clooney and Bullock appeared in Gravity (2013). Bullock would also appear in Ocean's Eight (2018), a spin-off of the Clooney/Soderbergh "Ocean's" franchise, as the sister of Clooney's character, Danny Ocean.

Goofs
If Karen Sisco had fired a gun in the enclosed volume of a car trunk, she probably would have blown out her ear drums.

Quotes
Jack Foley: It's like seeing someone for the first time, like you can be passing on the street, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of a recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. And you always remember it because it was there, and you let it go, and you think to yourself, 'What if I had stopped? What if I had said something?' What if, what if... it may only happen a few times in your life.
Karen Sisco: Or once.
Jack Foley: [softly] Or once.

Alternate versions
The laserdisk/DVD versions contain the following deleted scenes.
The original trunk scene, much much longer with extra dialog, different lighting and more wriggling.
Moselle is teaching Snoopy's dog "Tuffy" to do tricks with a Frisbee while Snoopy is watching boxing on TV. Glenn calls to tell Snoopy about the Ripley job and then steals a car from a gas station.
In a bizarre scene in the Adams Hotel room, Buddy and Jack talk about the feeling you get when you take a bath.
Karen gets a lecture from her dad about relationships while he fishes ocean debris out of his jetty.
Extended scene of Karen questioning Adele.
In the yard at Lompoc, Ripley talks to Foley about fish.
Glenn, Snoopy, Kenneth and White Boy Bob talk in the car after the transsexual murder.
We see the rather gruesome transsexual murder scene. Ray Cruz talks to Karen who spots Glenn's broken glasses on the floor.
Ripley is released from Lompoc and we see him packing stuff from his cell and saying goodbye to Foley.
After the job "interview" at Ripley's office building, Foley smashes a large fish tank with a paperweight shortly before being thrown out by two security guards.
Foley and Buddy talk in the hotel after Foley has returned from his "socializing" with Karen
Putting ski masks on in the van before the Ripley job. White Boy Bob tells a story about leaving his wallet behind at a break in.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Out of Sight/Smoke Signals/Doctor Dolittle/Picnic at Hanging Rock/Insomnia (1998)

Soundtracks
Flosso Bosso
Written and Performed by Harry Garfield

Top review

8/10

Oozes sexual chemistry

I like this film a lot - I thought its dialogue was pretty smart and the story a nifty spin on bank heists. What stood out for me though was the chemistry between Clooney and Lopez (the latter the sexiest role I have ever witnessed) - it made me adjust my polarneck on more than one occasion! Also the soundtrack is excellent (David Holmes and a couple of Isley Brothers tracks)

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Release date
- June 26, 1998 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Official site
- Universal Pictures
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Also known as
- Siêu Trộm Khét Tiếng
Filming locations
- Kronk Recreation Center - 5555 McGraw Street, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Production companies
- Universal Pictures
- Jersey Films
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Budget
- $48,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $37,562,568
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,020,435
- Jun 28, 1998
Gross worldwide
- $77,745,966

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Runtime
2 hours 3 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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