Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

Brian Koppelman, David Levien

Stars:

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

1 win & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
George Clooney	...	Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt	...	Rusty Ryan
Matt Damon	...	Linus Caldwell / 'Lenny Pepperidge'
Michael Mantell	...	Dr. Stan
Elliott Gould	...	Reuben Tishkoff
Ray Xifo	...	Reuben's Butler
Al Pacino	...	Willy Bank
Adam Lazarre-White	...	Bank's Junior Executive
Eddie Jemison	...	Livingston Dell
Don Cheadle	...	Basher Tarr
Shaobo Qin	...	Yen
Casey Affleck	...	Virgil Malloy
Scott Caan	...	Turk Malloy
Bernie Mac	...	Frank Catton
Carl Reiner	...	Saul Bloom

Storyline

The last time we saw Danny Ocean's crew, they were paying back ruthless casino mogul Terry Benedict after stealing millions from him. However, it's been a while since they've come back together, which is all about to change. When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, builds a hotel with another casino owner, Willy Bank, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal personally by the loathsome Bank. Bank's attitude even goes so far as to finding the amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Bank and what he's done to a friend. Uniting with their old enemy Benedict, who himself has a vendetta against Bank, the crew is out to pull off a major plan; one that will unfold on the night Bank's newest hot spot opens up. They're not in this for the money, but for the revenge.

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Plot Keywords:

heist | revenge | casino | tunnel boring machine | fbi | 

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Taglines:

What are the odds of getting even? 13 to one.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for brief sensuality

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Robert Caldwell receives a phone call from Abigail Sponder about some "suspicious characters," he picks up the phone and says "extension 765." Extension 765 is the name of a company and website owned by Steven Soderbergh.

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Goofs

In the scene where Terry Benedict is checking himself out in front of a mirror, Danny Ocean stands behind him and asks, "You ready?" Benedict looks into the mirror, and just before he answers, "I was born ready," he fleetingly makes eye contact with the camera.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Rusty Ryan: [answering phone] Yeah. Shit. Where is he? Gotta go.

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Crazy Credits

Each of the logos from the studios involved in the opening sequence is colored a dull blue color, a throwback to the original studio cards from "Ocean's 11"

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Connections

Referenced in Chelsea Lately: Episode #6.142 (2012)

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Soundtracks

Lara's Theme
Music by Maurice Jarre
Performed by James Last Band
Courtesy of Universal Music GmbH
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Ocean's hits a lucky thirteen.

"The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief." Shakespeare's Othello

Andy Garcia's wealthy Terry Benedict is financing Danny Ocean's Vegas heist from casino owner Willie Bank (Al Pacino) in order to get the last smile of vengeance, thief to thief, while Danny and Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) exact their own revenge. No honor among these slick reprobates, and good time is had by all the men and, this time, not Julia Roberts, but Clooney's real-life squeeze, Ellen Barkin, as Abigail Sponder, tough right hand to Bank.

I go to most movies as a film critic with my sensibility well-guarded against the fluffy confection of just another heist. But the Ocean's franchise, like the Bond's, has a cachet all its own with eye-pleasing duds, high-tech high jinx, and self-referential dialogue. Thus I am free to enjoy without feeling as if I'd sold out to crass commercialism—I have, but willfully and pleasurably.

I guess I'm sucked in like everyone else at the movies, even with as many as I've seen and written about, because I want to go where the director, in this case the estimable Steven Soderbergh, wants to take me. In Ocean's 12, it was all over Europe; in Thirteen it's the entertainment Mecca of the Western world.

No deep thoughts come to mind, just summer mindlessness dressed up for partying (Pitt and Clooney very nicely decked out, understatedly). Clooney's musings about the changes in Vegas since guys like him had shaken Sinatra's hand serves as "change" leitmotif lighter than air. Twenty years from now we'll be talking about the iconic Pitt and Clooney in the same nostalgic way. Ocean's Thirteen reinforces its place in popular culture as a repository for our transitory adulation of movie stars and the escapes they gave us long ago.

At the end, Matt Damon exits with "See you when I see you," a fitting piece of noncommittal that may promise another Ocean's installment or just more star sightings. Clooney says goodbye to Pitt with an in-joke the world is in on: "Hey! Next time! Keep the weight off. Pitt retorts, "Have a couple of kids." This is typical of the low-key, sweetly narcissistic third installment.

Ocean's hits a lucky thirteen this time around without a big jackpot but a great deal of good will.

Details

Official Sites:

Warner Bros [France]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Mandarin Spanish French

Release Date:

8 June 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

13

Filming Locations:

Moorgate, London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$85,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$36,133,403, 10 June 2007

Gross USA:

$117,154,724

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$311,312,624

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Jerry Weintraub Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1