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This is a flat-footed remake of a mildly amusing 1966 caper movie starring Michael Caine as a cockney conman posing as an aristocrat who hires chorus girl Shirley MacLaine to help him cheat the infinitely rich Herbert Lom in Hong Kong and in a fictitious Arab state.Joel and Ethan Coen have updated it to Texas and Britain with Colin Firth (in hornrim Caine-type spectacles) engaging Texas rodeo star Cameron Diaz to help shake down rich British bully and art collector Alan Rickman with a bogus Monet. The Coens hang on to the original Gambit 's one clever idea, which comes early on and was used better in 1966.Otherwise, they, director Hoffman and the film's producers have decided to make a pastiche of a 1960s swinging London movie with all the familiar features, including the single word title once obligatory for smart comedy-thrillers (eg, Charade, Arabesque, Kaleidoscope), the cute animated credits in the Pink Panther manner,
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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character d..» read more
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1957: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job,his pot-head son,who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah,only wants him round to fix the T.V. aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur..» read more
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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.