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Best Laid Plans

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Original title

Best Laid Plans

Year

1999

Running time

92 min.

Country

United States

Director

Mike Barker

Screenwriter

Ted Griffin

Cast

Music

Craig Armstrong

Cinematography

Ben Seresin

Producer

Fox 2000 Pictures, Dogstar Films. Distributor: Fox Searchlight

Genre

Thriller | Independent Film (US). Neo-noir

Synopsis

Nick (Alessandro Nivola) is caught in a dead end job in a dead end town. About the only thing going well for him is Lissa (Reese Witherspoon), his new girlfriend. A chance to make some easy cash, and a way out of town, only leads to more trouble. Also caught in the web of sex, thefts, gangsters, kidnappings and murder is Nick's college friend, Bryce (Josh Brolin).

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Critics' reviews

"Tense and intriguing. Terrific performances"

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction."

Jack Mathews: New York Daily News
"A mixed bag of striking visual style and overbearingly poisonous plotting (...) Visually ambitious but exasperatingly written, it's the kind of thriller in which style overwhelms substance by default."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses."

John Petrakis: Chicago Tribune
"Director Mike Barker has delivered a film that proves there's life left in the old genre yet, and does so with style, intelligence and surprisingly little violence."

Ken Fox: TV Guide
"A creakily mechanical B-noir."

Dennis Lim: Village Voice
"Has the refined taste to crib from classics like 'Double Indemnity.'"

Susan Wloszczyna: USA Today

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