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| Jailed for stealing prawn, Alvin Sanders is released by Treasury Agent Clenteen as bait to trap a dangerous criminal seeking to steal gold from the United States Treasury. While in jail, Alivin is given what the Feds think might be a secret code that can lead to the gold. All Alvin wants is to go straight with his girlfriend, but between the feds, the crooks, and a jealous brother, Sanders might have been safer in jail... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jamie Foxx (Alvin Sanders), David Morse (Edgar Clenteen), Robert Pastorelli (Jaster), Doug Hutchison (Bristol), Kimberly Elise (Lisa Hill), David Paymer (Agent Wooly), Mike Epps (Stevie Sanders), Jamie Kennedy (Blum), Nestor Serrano (Agent Boyle), Kirk Acevedo (Ramundo), Jeffrey Donovan (Julio), Megan Dodds (Agent Walsh), Tia Texada (Tika), Neil Crone (Supervisor), Matthew Witherly (Guard), Jason Jones (Guard), William Lynn (Night Watchman). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ALVIN SANDERS IS GOING TO HELP THE FEDS CATCH A KILLER. HE JUST DOESN'T KNOW IT YET. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). WRITERS: Andrew Scheinman, Adam Scheinman and Tony Gilroy. PRODUCER: Sean Ryerson. CO-PRODUCERS: Joseph Boccia. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Tony Gilroy and Jaime King. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Mark Mancina (score), Nelly (song). DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. |
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| "Instead of a riger in its tank, this vehicle for Foxx has a lot of formula." -- Jay Carr, Boston Globe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RELEASE DATE: September 15th, 2000 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $5.4 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $15.3 million (USA) BUDGET: $35 million (USA) SHOOTING DATES: September 1999 -- |
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| "If the movies that make 'best lists' are filet mignon, the culinary comparison here probably is bait." -- Mike Clark, USA Today | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Watching [the events] unfold is like being at the mercy of a compulsive channel surfer who can't stop flipping between a bad UPN cop show and a stock WB sitcom." -- Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "It's funny and clever, and it grows on you." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Director Antoine Fuqua...is left buried just as surely as those very unlikely gold bars." -- Robert Horton, Film.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Thanks to Antoine Fuqua's...feverish and self-indulgent MTV-inspired direction, with its desperate overreliance on close-ups, you just can't tell what's going on." -- Jonathan Foreman, New York Post | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Numbingly incoherent." -- Stephen Holden, New York Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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