The Grifters

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1908 movies items)

" When con artist Roy Dillon is visited by his Mother, Lilly, but who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra, the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artist"

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1908 movies items)

" When con artist Roy Dillon is visited by his Mother, Lilly, but who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra, the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artist"

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" John Cusack and Jeremy Piven"

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" John Cusack and Annette Bening"

Favorite Drama Films: 1990-1991 (111 movies items)

" Directed by: Stephen Frears Produced by: Martin Scorsese, Jim Painter, Barbara De Fine, and Robert A. Thomas Written by: Donald E. Westlake Based on the novel by: Jim Thompson Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton Edited by: Mick Audsley Music by: Elmer Bernstein Distributed by: Miramax Pictures"

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"(WATCHED: 19 May 2018)"

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"A trio of fine performances of gifted grifters, whether short cons or long cons."

A good movie

“It’s another movie I wanted to watch for so many years, I think at least 15 years, so I was really eager to check it out and I had some rather high expectations. Well, to be honest, even though I always had a weak spot for movies dealing with con artists, I still struggled to really get into this story. While watching this movie, I was thinking that the tricky thing with this genre is that you never can trust a con artist and, as a result, it is actually rather difficult to invest yourself in a such a tale. I mean, when do you know when they are on the level? As a result, during the whole thing, I was expecting one of the characters or maybe all of them to be running some kind of long con but, eventually, it wasn’t the case at all. In fact, towards the end of the movie, they simply tri” read more

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