The Crew (2000)

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Director:

Michael Dinner

Writer:

Barry Fanaro

Stars:

Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Burt Reynolds	...	Joey 'Bats' Pistella
Dan Hedaya	...	Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
Seymour Cassel	...	Tony 'Mouth' Donato
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Detective Olivia Neal
Jennifer Tilly	...	Ferris 'aka Maureen' Lowenstein
Lainie Kazan	...	Pepper Lowenstein
Miguel Sandoval	...	Raul Ventana, Drug Lord
Jeremy Piven	...	Det. Steve Menteer
Casey Siemaszko	...	Young Bobby Bartellemeo
Matt Borlenghi	...	Young Joey 'Bats' Pistella
Billy Jayne	...	Young Tony 'Mouth' Donato
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Young Mike 'The Brick' Donatelli
Mike Moroff	...	Jorge
José Zúñiga	...	Escobar

Storyline

Four former made men, struggling to get by in a rundown Miami hotel, come up with a plot to drive out all of the young tenants that are slowly taking over the beach-front hotel and driving up their rent. Taking a man that was found dead on the beach, they arrange what appears to a mob hit and provide a note that says more killings are to occur. Unfortunately the old man they use turns out to be the senile father of a drug lord. The drug lord declares war on the killers of his father, thinking it was an action of his enemies. A stripper learns of the old men's involvement and threatens to squeal on them unless they kill her stepmother. Meanwhile, one man searches for his long-lost daughter, who is the investigating police officer, trying to divest herself from her crumb fellow officer and former boyfriend.

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Plot Keywords:

urination | wedding | swimming pool | exotica dancing | exotic dancer | 

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Taglines:

The Black Market, Just Turned Grey!

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Genres:

Crime | Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, violence and langauge

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

25 August 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gamle slyngler

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$38,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,051,921, 27 August 2000

Gross USA:

$13,023,075

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$13,105,853

Company Credits

Production Co:

George Litto Productions, Sonnenfeld Josephson Worldwide Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jeremy Piven stated his thoughts about sucking Carrie-Anne Moss's toes for one scene in this movie as follows: "The question I'm asked the most is 'What's it like sucking Carrie-Anne's toes?' It was tremendous. She has exquisite toes. Her feet were primed from The Matrix (1999), from a year of bouncing on them. We definitely nailed it in eight takes, and then I asked for an extra one, just in case."

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Goofs

When Bobby is rescuing bats in the bathroom, he does not close the nose of the unconscious one, which is necessary during the artificial respiration.

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Quotes

Bobby Bartellemeo: [Narrating] Here is where the problem started, you see, after sex and this is something we never knew - Ha ha, why would we? Tony "The Mouth" Donato, a guy quieter than an inverted Trappist monk, like to talk.

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Connections

References Jenny Jones (1991)

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Soundtracks

My Prerogative
Written by Bobby Brown, Gene Griffin and Teddy Riley
Performed by Bobby Brown

User Reviews

Light senior moments

So much promise, yet so little achievement was the enduring impression left on me after watching this comedy. A group of ageing ex-con artists conjure an imaginative, yet flawed plot to save their Miami retirement home from soaring rents by using the body of a dead neighbour to scare away potential residents. When the dead man's son (Sandoval) emerges to take vengeance on those responsible for his death, they use their collective criminal experience to dodge the attempted retributions.

Dreyfuss, Reynolds, Cassel and Hedaya probably weren't quite old enough to convince me that they were geriatrics, relying on props to affect the age (hearing aids etc) although Reynolds did a great impression of someone who'd lost his marbles. His near-death epiphanies lead to several hair-brained schemes while Dreyfuss' main angle is assisting the local police investigating the death, the female detective (Moss) unaware the she is his daughter. She mistakes his kindly advances as those of a dirty old man, while Dreyfuss is trying to work out how to confess to the ruse, and still reconcile with the daughter neither knew existed. Moss is stunning and it's almost inconceivable that the Pivster (Piven) is both her detective partner and boyfriend from whom she's estranged. Must be low self esteem...

Slapstick, sentimental comedy has its moments and an appealing cast but never quite hit the notes I was expecting, all things considered. Easy, lightweight viewing.