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Title: Simpatico (1999)
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| 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>
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Just from reading the main cast of this, one would expect a marvelous drama. Nolte, Stone, Bridges and Finney... such grand talent in the craft of acting. The fact that the writer/director had never worked in movies before or since didn't worry me too much... The Wachowski brothers handed in first-class work the first time they tried their hand at directing, and their first script... well, OK, but they've later redeemed themselves for that turkey. The cinematography is not unique, but it has moments. The editing is much the same... effective at times, but rarely breaks away from the norm. The plot is fair... it develops nicely throughout, providing the back-story and evolving throughout. The pacing is OK. The acting is pretty good, I didn't really find any performances to be lacking. I think my main issue was that I could simply not understand why the people acted like they did, for the majority of the film. I never anticipated their actions, I never followed their motivation and got to the conclusions that they did. Also, the themes and ideas seem to be nothing more than side-notes... none are explored with much effort. All in all, I found this to be a decent-looking film with sufficiently good acting that just didn't make an awful lot of sense and didn't spend enough energy on giving the viewer anything solid, be it an idealist message or simply food for thought. I recommend this to fans of horse-racing, as it features a few very nicely shot sequences of horses, and, to a lesser extent, fans of the actors and possibly those who know the play(as I don't know it myself, I wouldn't be able to tell you if this were a good translation or not). 5/10