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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
655 Views


Please, listen to me.

Get me a doctor.

Get me a doctor. Please.

- I'll give you a name.|- You're giving me a brain tumor.

You give me a pass,|I'll give you the f***ing gold!

Nobody knows where it is|but me, you know.

Did you burn your partner?

I need a doctor.

You took the gold|and left him there, didn't you?

No wonder you drank. You figured|jail was the best place to lay low.

Just keep pulling my chain...

keep on with|with this happy horseshit...

l'll make sure|you do need a doctor.

- Ed?|- What, goddamn it?!

I don't think he's faking.

Damn, I was just trying|to have a good meal.

Damn!

And I just thought you had gas.

Oh, sh*t.

- What the hell?|- Get in there.

Move it.

You lucky. Oh, you lucky.

Sit down, Alvin.

Not there.

Oh, yeah. Got reserved seats.

Watching the game?

Big screen.

Hey, look, I apologize...

about that irreverent sh*t|I displayed in the cell.

I was out of line.

I had been lifting weights...

and I just got through doing curls,|so I was real tense.

Hey, Alvin?

I got some good news.

And bad news.|Want to hear the good news?

Yeah, I mean, good news is great.

You're f***ed.|Want to hear the bad news?

I think you just told me the bad news.

Unless you want to tell me|worser news.

You're alone in a room with me.

Yeah, right.

So, what you want?

You and....

You and Jaster were alone|in that cell for eight hours.

All alone.

You must have talked about something.

His bowels.

He was shitting and coughing|and it didn't smell good.

How do you talk to somebody like that?

- It's terrible.|- Alvin.

I do this for a living.

You think I can't see that|you're hiding something?

Okay, everybody out.

Alvin, think about Jaster...

and tell me|where you want the bruises.

You trying to try|some sneaky sh*t, huh?

Gonna fool me with the quiet voice|while you beat on my body.

You can do that,|but you can't beat on my soul.

Do the words "Stokely Carmichael"|mean anything to y'all?

Reverend Malcolm X?|Reverend AI Sharpton?

I see you taking off your Timex.

I ain't telling you sh*t nor|the brothers behind the aquarium.

You can kiss my ass|with your tongue...

and I will take|this information to my grave.

The man said something|about the Bronx Zoo, okay?

Well?

We completed our search|of The World of Darkness.

That would be your bats,|your leopard cats, your mole rats.

We came up empty, sir.

"There's no place like home".

- It's gotta be a building.|- We checked them all.

We checked the monkey house,|the reptile house, the giraffe house.

Even the outhouse.

We scanned the entire grounds|to a depth of 20 feet.

This guy was|a heavy-equipment operator.

Five minutes with a machine,|he could've buried the gold anywhere.

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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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