Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Nick Nolte | ... | Vincent Webb | |
Jeff Bridges | ... | Lyle Carter | |
Sharon Stone | ... | Rosie | |
Catherine Keener | ... | Cecilia | |
Albert Finney | ... | Simms | |
Shawn Hatosy | ... | Young Vinnie | |
Kimberly Williams-Paisley | ... | Young Rosie (as Kimberly Williams) | |
Liam Waite | ... | Young Carter | |
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Whit Crawford | ... | Jean |
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Bob Harter | ... | Louis |
Angus T. Jones | ... | 5 Year Old Kid | |
Ken Strunk | ... | Charlie | |
Ashley Guthrie Baker | ... | Kelly (as Ashley Gutherie) | |
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Maria Carretero | ... | Airport Attendant |
Nicole Forester | ... | Female Flight Attendant |
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I really don't know where to start. The characters weren't that believable at all. The development they have gone through (as you see them in their youth as well) and the development they go through during the movie just doesn't make sense to me.
And the plot, you can smell something similar to a plot here and there, but that is as close as you get. The first 15-20 minutes it works, it feels like an ordinary movie. But then it just breaks down and you wonder what the message is, what the story is, what the heck this movie is supposed to convey.
In summary it's a pointless flick that doesn't strike any chords in me anyway.