Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 12/11/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Founder of the Slamdance Film Festival
Paul Rachman makes his feature-length debut with this tale of dishonor among thieves, solidly in the vein of 1994's
Shallow Grave. When four friends (
Olivia Williams,
Balthazar Getty,
Daniel London, and
Stacy Edwards) travel to Buenos Aires to crash a wedding reception, they have more on their mind than just a lively evening of free drinks and the Chicken Dance. With the aid of ace thief Felix (
Tim Curry), they steal a precious Degas statuette from the mansion owner hosting the shindig and abscond to L.A. Unfortunately, the
objet d'art is nowhere to be found, and the covert dealer (
Forest Whitaker) who's expecting it is none too pleased. He demands that they come up with the piece or $1,000,000 immediately. To solve their problem, the four compadres take out life insurance policies on each another and plot out which friend is going to die in order to proffer the heist money.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide