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1 Hour, 56 Minutes
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2003
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PG13
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, violence, some sexual content and language.
Synopsis:
From Academy Award-nominated director Ridley Scott ("Black Hawk Down," "Gladiator"), Academy Award-winning executive producer Robert Zemeckis ("Cast Away," "Contact") and screenwriter Ted Griffin ("Ocean's Eleven," "Best Laid Plans") comes this dramatic comedy based on the novel by acclaimed author Eric Garcia ("Anonymous Rex"). Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage ("Adaptation," "Ghost Rider") stars with Sam Rockwell ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "Galaxy Quest") and Alison Lohman ("Big Fish," "White Oleander") in this comedy about a con man with an obsessive-compulsive disorder whose orderly life and latest lucrative scam are threatened by the reappearance of a teenage daughter he never knew existed.
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(c) 2003 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men, starring Nicolas Cage, is being faulted for something that Scott himself rarely evidences in his films: sentimentality. Ridley Scott goes all gooey, Ren?e Graham writes in the Boston Globe. But that same characteristic of the film appears to work for a number of other critics. A.O. Scott in the New York Times makes this observation about the plot, which, in part, concerns the reunion of a conman with his teenage daughter. The movie's idea of parenthood is a familiar one, at once cautionary and comforting: having a child, it suggests, will wreck your life, but it will also make you a better person. (This notion, needless to say, is wildly narcissistic, absurdly melodramatic and unconscionably sentimental. It is not, however, altogether inaccurate.)
Lew Irwin
Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men, starring Nicolas Cage, is being faulted for something that Scott himself rarely evidences in his films: sentimentality. Ridley Scott goes all gooey, Ren?e Graham writes in the Boston Globe. But that same characteristic of the film appears to work for a number of other critics. A.O. Scott in the New York Times makes this observation about the plot, which, in part, concerns the reunion of a conman with his teenage daughter. The movie's idea of parenthood is a familiar one, at once cautionary and comforting: having a child, it suggests, will wreck your life, but it will also make you a better person. (This notion, needless to say, is wildly narcissistic, absurdly melodramatic and unconscionably sentimental. It is not, however, altogether inaccurate.)
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