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Synopsis: In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen ho
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
2000
119 min
$14,934,238
Website
654 Views


See, that's...|Yo, what's up? What's up, man?

It's my heart.

Yo, guard!|We need a doctor in here right now!

- What's up?|- The pills. Get the pills.

Hold on. I'm coming, I'm coming.

All right. All right, just relax.|You all right?

I'm gonna get somebody|for you, all right?

- Alvin.|- Yeah.

- Is that your name?|- Yeah.

You probably know me. The shrimp|heist, but it was actually prawns.

- If I don't make it...|- Oh, come on with that.

Can you just listen?|This is important.

I need you to get|a message to my wife.

Tell her...

that she should go|to the Bronx Zoo.

- Yeah. The Bronx Zoo. All right.|- Please.

Tell her, "There's no place|like home".

What about Toto...

and, you know,|the yellow brick road?

What kind of pills you taking?

Are you through.

You get that message to her.

I'll make it worth your while.

Cool, cool.|Now, what if you do make it?

You still break a brother off?|I need some change in my pocket.

Damn, he already sh*t all over...

Hands over your head and don't move.

Drag this piece of crap upstairs.

Dude was already sick. He was about|to die. What's wrong with you?

Don't treat him like that.

Don't treat him|like an animal like that.

Y'all push him around. If it was me,|I wouldn't take that bullshit.

Are you a doctor?

We're ready here, sir.

You been working out, huh?

Sir?

Yeah, you better talk to him, boy.

You lucky these bars here.|You don't know who you fooling...

Okay, you coming back.

I'll be right up here|getting my sleep.

I'll whup your ass.

You don't know who you just|grabbed up on. I'm a gangster.

I see you coming.

Come here where there's no light,|I'll whup you.

You got your boys|with your billy sticks.

I'm Alvin, baby, king of the seafood.|They know me around these corridors.

Explain it to me, John.

How do you steal 40 million in gold|and not have the cash to make bail?

I don't know|what you're talking about.

I'm out of aspirin.

Could you get me some?

Chewable.

How'd it happen?

How do you pull|the heist of the decade...

and get busted for a DWl?

What kind of man...

goes out celebrating...

after he pops two boys|in the back of the head?

Look, I didn't....

You're not hanging that on me.

They were on the floor...

facedown.

It was an execution, pure and simple.

No guns, man.

Look, I'm a contractor.|I'm no f***ing shooter!

Then who?

Just give me the names.

A name. It was just....

There was just one other guy.|It was me and him.

- Bullshit. Bullshit!|- One guy. One guy!

I swear it.

Computer is what this guy's got.

He's got the whole government wired.

Who?

Come on, Jaster, tell me who.

Give me the goddamn name, Jaster.|Just give me a name.

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Andrew Scheinman

Andrew Scheinman is an American film and television producer, as well as a film director and screenwriter. Before he got his start in entertainment, he worked as a professional tennis player, as well as earning a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973. He is one of the heads of Castle Rock Entertainment. He won an Emmy Award for producing Seinfeld and was nominated for an Academy Award for producing A Few Good Men. more…

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