Entrapment (1999)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Jon Amiel

Writers (WGA):

Ronald Bass (story) and
Michael Hertzberg (story) ...

Release Date:

30 April 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Then again, practice makes perfect.

Plot:

Catherine Zeta-Jones works for an insurance agency that sends her to track down and help capture an art thief, played by Sean Connery.

Plot Keywords:

Insurance | Master Thief | Mask | Art Thief | Gala

Awards:

4 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Sean Connery	...	Robert MacDougal
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Virginia Baker
Ving Rhames	...	Aaron Thibadeaux
Will Patton	...	Hector Cruz
Maury Chaykin	...	Conrad Greene
Kevin McNally	...	Haas
Terry O'Neill	...	Quinn
Madhav Sharma	...	Security Chief
David Yip	...	Chief of Police
Tim Potter	...	Millennium Man
Eric Meyers	...	Waverly Technician
Aaron Swartz	...	Cruz's Man
William Marsh	...	Computer Technician
Tony Xu	...	Banker
Rolf Saxon	...	Director

Also Known As:

Untitled Antoine Fuqua Project (USA) (working title)
Verlockende Falle (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some language, sensuality, violence and drug content.

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

USA | UK | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #36624) | Iceland:12 | Malaysia:U | Philippines:PG-13 | Italy:T (tv rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12/9 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Writer Ronald Bass's pitch to Fountainbridge Films consisted of only seven lines.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At 11:00 PM on the night of the Millenium Heist, Gin says they will now gain one tenth of a second every minute until midnight to gain the extra ten seconds the heist requires. However, 60 minutes' worth of gains will only yield them six extra seconds.

Quotes:

Mac: Give me the spanner!
Gin: The what?
Mac: The wrench!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Breach (2007)

Soundtrack:

Shrine of Sringar

Zeta-Jones enough said

Entrapment beings with as a priceless Rembrandt is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a daring and technically executed robbery, insurance investigator Virginia Baker "Gin" (Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins looking into the matter and is soon convinced it's the work of master art thief Robert MacDougal "Mac" (Sean Connery.) Gin thinks the best way to get the goods on Mac is to work her way inside his operation, so she locates him in London and, posing as a fellow art thief, offers to work as his partner. While Mac is smart enough to not accept an offer like that from just anyone, most thieves don't look as good as Gin does, and she soon proves an able assistant in a shakedown robbery where they swipe a rare Chinese mask from a British museum. After this success, Mac agrees to join forces with Gin for what is literally the heist of the millennium as Midnight rolls around in Kuala Lumpur on December 31, 1999, the security computers in a major multinational banking facility will be breached for a split second as the computers roll over to a new program for Y2K. Entrapment may have been pretty weak for a story, but the robbery scenes were very good. I liked this movie overall, I know it wasn't the best Connery, but I watched this for the sexy Zeta-Jones, I thought she was great.