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The best things in life are free!
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The conservative son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joins his father on the road -- after being released from jail for one of his dad's earlier crimes. | full synopsis
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A tip-top lowball roadmovie with grifts galore - excellent indie flick
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Christopher Walken | ... | Nat Parker | |
| Alessandro Nivola | ... | Ritchie Flynn Parker | |
| Sharon Stone | ... | Dolores Jones | |
| Dean Cain | ... | Rick Carlston | |
| Peter Coyote | ... | Burt Kruger | |
| Amanda Peet | ... | Maggie | |
| Beth Bailey | ... | Real Estate Lady | |
| Marya Beauvais | ... | Realtor | |
| Frank Bond | ... | Bar Manager | |
| Christopher Dempsey | ... | Tim Webber | |
| Christopher Hagen | ... | Marty | |
| Anne Johns | ... | Kruger's wife | |
| Diana Maimin | ... | Desk Clerk | |
| Mike Miller | ... | Pharmaceutical CEO | |
| Mandy Olsen | ... | Hospital Nurse |
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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and language.
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Canada:90 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:98 min
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Make It Easy
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If the late 2000s are the new 1930s then this is the perfect movie. In a time of recession we need Christopher Walken's optimistic, unrealistic, opportunistic grifter...
This was a real surprise - and a very pleasant one. I was expecting deep and sorrowful, but got hilarious, thoughtful, and even belly laughs - and enough grifts to make me wonder how or why we pay for anything anymore.
By turns honest, hilarious, outrageous, and moving this is all wrapped up in a lowball low-fi package that smacks of good indie roots.
Definitely one of my favorite movies of the year. Walken's gives a masterclass in comic timing, and Alessandro Nivola is a great straight man as the son who never could. And some great cameos. This is at times snort your milk through your nose funny, at others tragic: but it is not buffoonish in your face slapstick and even better for it.
All in all a really great little road movie that constantly sparkles with fresh ideas and little touches of originality that puts most movies to shame - I hope the Dobrofkys have got another 20 scripts like this - they deserve awards for the writing - a wonderful mix and they deserve lots of work on the basis of this.
And if I'm raving it's because it deserves it - it stands out from the crowd by a mile: fresh, witty, sincere, slightly surreal and oddball, and by the end, exemplary.
Get to see, you'll be glad you did.