Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
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"Ruprecht, do you want the genital cuff?" 💀The fact that this movie didn't turn out extremely misogynistic is a minor miracle🙏. Underrated comedy classic to me🤑. I could watch hours of these scumbags scamming💵.And I thought Glenne Headly made an excellent foil.💅🏻 Such an underrated performance.
this is my Challengers
Watched it on a plane. Maybe that was a little condescending of me. "This thing doesn't look super challenging. I'm sure it won't be dampened by airplane conditions." I was ultimately right but where do I get off?It's surreal to see your favorite Steve Martin performance at the age of 35. Especially if you grew up loving him. It's like falling for a David Blaine card trick on the street when you're a few blocks away and he hasn't even clocked you.It's not surprising that Oz would go on to work with Caine again in Muppet Christmas Carol. Caine's already giving a "the one human in a muppet movie" performance here alongside human muppets Steve Martin and Glenne Headley. His performance as Lawrence is the exact right note of "I am the smartest person in every room, but I have enough wry, bemused humanity to keep me from walking out of every scene." It's very winning and helps to sell the movie's unexpectedly warm ending. I have the devil in me and so I maybe would've liked to see a nastier ending, but at the same time I was glad to see the movie rise above the kind of "all scoundrels must pay" ending you get when you let Protestants make comedy. Who are we kidding here? We don't need to be washed clean of the sins of the con. The con kicks ass.
Two rival con men, one sophisticated and one brash, compete to see who can successfully swindle an American heiress out of $50,000 first. Find out who wins on Mood.
Frank Oz directed the 1988 film, following his career as a performer for The Muppets and his work directing Little Shop of Horrors.
Yes, the film is a remake of the 1964 caper Bedtime Story, which starred Marlon Brando and David Niven.
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