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| Ray Liotta | ... | Frank Sinatra | |
| Joe Mantegna | ... | Dean Martin | |
| Don Cheadle | ... | Sammy Davis, Jr. | |
| Angus Macfadyen | ... | Peter Lawford | |
| William Petersen | ... | John F. Kennedy | |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | Bobby Kennedy | |
| Bobby Slayton | ... | Joey Bishop | |
| Megan Dodds | ... | May Britt | |
| Deborah Kara Unger | ... | Ava Gardner | |
| Veronica Cartwright | ... | Rocky Cooper | |
| Dan O'Herlihy | ... | Joe Kennedy | |
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Robert Miranda | ... | Momo Giancana |
| Barbara Niven | ... | Marilyn Monroe | |
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Michelle Grace | ... | Judy Campbell |
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In the 1950s and 1960s Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous "Rat Pack". He, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, mobster Sam Giancana, Judith Campbell Exner and the FBI. Sinatra helps John F. Kennedy get elected in 1960 with a little help from Giancana. Lawford, married to a Kennedy, is an unhappy go-between. Davis is fighting racism and insecurity. Campbell is sleeping with both Giancana and JFK who is also sleeping with Monroe. Written by Jim Sadur <jsadur@keyflux.com>
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22 August 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El clan Sinatra See more »Filming Locations:
Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Dean Martin: You threatened us.
[laughter]
Dean Martin: Did he threaten you too Sammy?
Sammy Davis, Jr.: Um, I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it might incinerate me baby.
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Written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
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William Peterson portrays John F. Kennedy in "The Rat Pack" and also JFK's father Joseph P. Kennedy in "The Kennedy's of Massachussettes". See more »Goofs
On election night, Frank Sinatra is talking on a phone. The receiver is clearly connected to the phone wire with an RJ-11 jack. That kind of connection is common now but did not exist in 1960. See more »Quotes
Frank Sinatra: There's a reason why we're all here tonight...Dean Martin: You threatened us.
[laughter]
Dean Martin: Did he threaten you too Sammy?
Sammy Davis, Jr.: Um, I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it might incinerate me baby.
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Come Fly With MeWritten by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
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Y'know, I really liked this film which recalls a year or two in the life of the Rat Pack, but I can't tell you why. I've watched the DVD four times in the last three days.
On the one hand, it is just a rehashing of some old cliches and an extended display of celebrity impersonations. (When Sinatra performs, for example, it is Ray Liotta's body and the voice of a fellow named Michael Dees)
Forget about the rest of the players ... they do OK, but this anonymous guy named Michael Dees is the real star ... a flawless recreation of Sinatra's phrasing on the Kennedy campaign song, the best-ever rendition of "One More for the Road", and more. This guy is so good it is eerie.
I guess what I liked about the movie is that it was just so much damned fun to live in those days again for a couple of hours. The movie did a decent job of showing what it was like to be hung up in the ring-a-ding, koo-koo life of the guys who had "the world on a string" for a couple of decades.
Forget the deep insights. There aren't any but, as Dino said, "you can't share your deepest feelings when you don't have any". The film did make an effort to show Sammy's inner conflict between his own sense of self-worth and the second class citizenship he was accorded by his country and even his buddies, but it was a clumsy attempt to be serious, like a drunken guy telling you how much he loves you, and frankly it provided some of the slowest moments in the movie.
But you'll marvel again at Dino's centered calm, Sammy's dazzling talent, Frank's complex and godlike power, JFK's charisma, and Frank's incomparable phrasing of a song ... even when it's actually sung by Michael Dees.