What's the "Perfect Con" Movie?
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What's the perfect "con" movie? Share your favorites with other con genre fans.
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User name:
| denkiva
| Hometown:
| Boston, MA
| Title:
| Catch Me If You Can
| Year:
| 2002
| Director:
| Steven Spielberg
| Actors:
| Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
| Plot in a nutshell:
| Frank Abagnale Jr steals millions using forged checks and impersonates a doctor, pilot and lawyer, all before the age of 20!
| Why you love it:
| Steven Spielberg made an uber-stylish biopic of on of the This is a cat and mouse extravaganza. Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio are fun to watch and the whole story seems so outrageous that it's hard to believe that all of it really happened.
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| denkiva
| Hometown:
| Boston, MA
| Title:
| The Spanish Prisoner
| Year:
| 1997
| Director:
| David Mamet
| Actors:
| Steve Martin, Felicity Huffman, Campbell Scott
| | Plot in a nutshell: | Joe Ross gets caught up in an elaborate con to swindle him out of his unpatented industrial process. Nobody can be trusted and nobody is as they seem.
| Why you love it
| This movie had me guessing the whole way through. I didn't know who was in on the con and who could be trusted. So many times you can predict the ending of a movie in the first 20 minutes. This one had me guessing up until the end. It's a must see. David Mamet is the best.
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| DanR54
| Hometown:
| Los Angeles
| Title:
| Pink Panther
| Year:
| 1963
| Director:
| Blake Edwards
| Actors:
| Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, David Niven Claudie Cardinelle | | Plot in a nutshell: | famous cat burgler and nephew steel a famous jewel
| Why you love it
| its a blake edwards flick, need I say more
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Leveragehead | Hometown:
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KC MO | Title:
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After the Sunset | Year:
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2004 | Director:
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Bret Ratner | Actors:
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The beautiful Salma Hayek, Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle... | | Plot in a nutshell: |
Retired catburglar is coned, by a down and out FBI agent, into one last score. Against the wishes of his girlfriend. | Why you love it
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It has a little bit of every thing it is funny, has action, some mushy girly stuff for the wife. It is just a well rounded grifter movie. | |
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| blsedbx3
| Hometown:
| Born in Monroe, LA
| Title:
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
| Year:
| ?
| Director:
| ?
| Actors:
| Steve Martin, Cain
| | Plot in a nutshell: | 2 conartists try to get a woman to pay for a miracle surgery to get one of the cons to walk, they are unwittiningly double crossed by their mark who ends up stealing money and later joining them.
| Why you love it
| It is the most hilarious movie I've seen and the attempts and pain to which these guys willgo through to get the mark is a dedication in it's own. The double cross is great due to you never knew it was coming.
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| blsedbx3
| Hometown:
| Monroe,LA through Arkansas to the Ozark Mountains and the Buffalo River.
| Title:
| The Italian Job
| Year:
| ?
| Director:
| ?
| Actors:
| Mark Walberg, Seth Green
| | Plot in a nutshell: | Group steals gold bars and is double crossed by one of its members, who steals the gold, the group regroups and plans a way to get the gold back and give their ex partner what he has coming. Use of several mini-Coopers, and skillfull driving they get the gold back and the Ukranian mafia gets the bad guy and one guy gets his stereo, one a car, one shoes,and the other love.
| Why you love it
| High action and cool equipment and tools to pull the job off. Stunt driving. Plus the guy , Jason (star from Crank).
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Jackjess | Hometown:
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Firminy ( France ) | Title:
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The Sting | Year:
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1973 | Director:
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George Roy Hill | Actors:
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Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw... | | Plot in a nutshell: |
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teems up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. | Why you love it
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The charme of the two characters who never used violence and set a trap for the criminal but for the spectator too. It's so great. ( sorry for the spelling mistake ). | |
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Deb195 | Hometown:
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Orange County, CA | Title:
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The Count of Monte Cristo | Year:
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2002 | Director:
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Kevin Reynolds | Actors:
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Jim Caviezel & Guy Peirce | | Plot in a nutshell: |
Old Story... guy has bestie and true love, guy gets set up by bestie & goes to jail. Bestie tells girl guy is dead and marries girl. Guy's not dead and comes back and pulls off ultimate con. He's a 'Count' from an imaginary place and has loads of cash to take his revenge. | Why you love it
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This movie never gets old to me. It's not typical 'con' movie like Oceans 11 but the emotions are there; you want the Count to totally screw his back-stabbing friend in a big way! The movie does not disappoint. 3 1/2 stars | |
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User name:
| N2seeleybooth
| Hometown:
| fayetteville, NC
| Title:
| The flimflam man
| Year:
| ages ago
| Director:
| can't remember
| Actors:
| can't remember
| | Plot in a nutshell: | old con man teaching a young guy the art of the con, young guy becomes disillusioned when he sees how corrupt most people are
| Why you love it
| Great acting, funny as heck, the young guy became a good guy
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User name:
| Enderw
| Hometown:
| Chattanooga, TN
| Title:
| The Grifter
| Year:
| 1990
| Director:
| Stephen Frears
| Actors:
| Angelica Huston, John Cusak, Annette Benning, Pat Hingle and the fabulous J. T Walsh!
| | Plot in a nutshell: | A small time con man (Cusak) has big time problems when his mom (Huston) and girl-friend (Benning) clash.
| Why you love it
| This movie is so wicked yet so believable and well acted it takes you away. Benning is amazing as Myra Langtry. These people are witty, clever, experienced, and desparate.
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User name:
| LuvLevG
| Hometown:
| Chattanooga, TN
| Title:
| House of Games
| Year:
| 1987
| Director:
| David Mamet
| Actors:
| Lindsey Crouse, Joe Mantenga
| | Plot in a nutshell: | A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men. | Why you love it
| Mamet uses hustles and con artists as a backdrop on the art of the lie. The film has a noir art house look. A similar Mamet film is "The Spanish Prisoner".
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User name:
| LuvLevG
| Hometown:
| Chattanooga, TN
| Title:
| Inside the Meltdown
| Year:
| 2009
| Director:
| Michael Kirk
| Actors:
| Paulson, Bernanke, Krugman, Lewis, Geithner, Dodd, Frank
| | Plot in a nutshell: | On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. | Why you love it
| The explanation of the collapse of Wall Street - the most accomplished con artists in the world! Watch it online.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/
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| Duelgrey | Hometown:
| Amarillo, Tx. | Title:
| The Ocelot's Turn | Year:
| 1934 | Director:
| John Ford Huston II | Actors:
| Peter Lorre, Margret Winford | | Plot in a nutshell: | The Destittute Widow of a Steel Tycoon is fooled into thinking her Husband is not actually dead but hiding out in Havana. She hires a Man of "Deceptive Fortitude" to help her recover the Wealth She thought She'd Lost to her Dead Husband's Bad Investment Decisions. | Why you love it
| Peter Lorre as the Conman known through the Underworld as the Ocelot. Just seeing Peter Lorre as a Dashing, Clever Rogue made it all worthwhile. Plus the Plot is Original even though it's been used Hundreds of Times Since. | |
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