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Synopsis: Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he learns Dell is not what he seems, so he contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been conned out of the process and framed for murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists Susan's aid to prove his innocence.
Director(s): David Mamet
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
PG
Year:
1997
110 min
1,730 Views


Are you asking a favor of me?

Is that the idea?

Because if it's important to you, why

don't you take the camera as a gift?

Why don't you take it?

There you go,

My gift to you.

Excuse me,

What is this thing that

brought you down here?

A very hush-hush,

secret development,

But I'm so low down on the food chain.

Ive only been there a month,

- Hello, Joe, I was just--

- yeah, we're secret agents down here,

- Hello, Joe, I was just--

- yeah, we're secret agents down here,

Super-rich and powerful,

Reforming the world.

- Full of priceless information,

- Everybody on vacation's got a story,

- Isn't it?

- That's right,

Everybody needs to feel important.

What do you do?

Me? Im with the FBI.

I know,

I shouldn't have said anything.

Not that I know anything,

you're right, you know what I have?

A secretary mentality.

- That's right. Might be a good idea--

- Not that anyone tells me anything,

Im just here to fetch and carry,

''Send the new girl,''

No. It's not a big thing.

Just don't have to mention it,

Thanks.

- Somebody's got a crush on you,

- I ain't lookin' for an office romance,

All I want is an umbrella

in my drink.

Your ship comes in, you're gonna be

whisking them away like flies, lad,

- Just like flies,

- Ship comes in!

Nice shirt.

They can twist and squirm,

but they owe ya.

- And if they don't wanna pay?

- Well, nobody wants to pay,

Here's what I think:

Worry is interest paid in advance

on a debt that never comes due.

- Is it indeed?

- I warned ya,

Leave the job till tomorrow,

This evening, let's enjoy ourselves.

- Youll have to show me how.

- My pleasure.

Good evening, ladies.

Hello, girls,

Evidently intended

for our betters.

I'm gonna go off

and get into trouble,

How good of you to come out

and join us.

Here we go.

you interested in tennis?

Never had too much time for it,

That's the whole problem

with the whole thing, isn't it?

A man said, It's all right when your

hobbies get in the way of your work

but when they start to get

in the way of each other--''

My little sister plays tennis.

Alternate on the Olympic team.

Well, sorry,

What I want to say is,

thank you.

I was wrong today,

I was wrong to offer you money,

It was gauche...

and it was--

and I appreciate your gesture.

I'm in your debt, Thank you.

Glad to help,

Lovely, romantic spot,

My name is Julian Dell, by the way.

Everybody calls me Jimmy,

- Joseph Ross,

- That was a nice gesture on your part.

- I appreciate it.

- Where's the young lady?

- The young lady on the beach,

- Helicopter.

Back to Bermuda,

you wanna get a drink?

Sure,

Who is she, the young lady

on the beach?

Well, she's a princess,

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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