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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 24, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman & Sam Rockwell | |
Performer: | Bruce McGill, Bruce Altman, Jenny O'Hara, Steve Eastin & Sheila Kelley | |
Directed by | Ridley Scott | |
Edited by | Dody Dorn | |
Screenplay by | Nicholas Griffin & Ted Griffin | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Ridley Scott, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Sean Bailey & Ted Griffin | |
Director of Photography: | John Mathieson | |
Executive Production by | Robert Zemeckis |
Entertainment Reviews:
Matchstick Men never really casts off its cloak of artificiality and calculation; its pleasures are minor, however distracting they may be.
Variety
Matchstick Men glides from comedy to suspense to poignance, arriving at a destination you might not suspect...Fun while it lasts, but it's a bit of a con job itself.
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Newsweek
Rating: 3/5 --
Something less than the sum of its parts, Matchstick Men is a decent film that should have been a considerably better one.
Film Threat
A thoroughly absorbing hour and 56 minutes of entertainment.
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Observer
A cleverly planned switcheroo story in which the twist at the end is the knife in the back.
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Urban Cinefile
Matchstick Men -- a nice strong balance of laughter and melodrama that envelops you like A Summer Wind.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 4/5 --
Scott tucks away his visual athletics in favour of something leisurely and quietly devastating. It's ultimately far more cunning a script than we can reveal here.
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Empire Magazine
Product Description:
Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) is a con man who has had to overcome enormous problems with obsessive-compulsive disorder in order to stay on top of his game. His partner in crime, Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), helps him run a daily business conning housewives out of their money with telephone scams. Frank is frustrated with their small-fry clientele however, and urges Roy to look for bigger business ventures. Roy resists Frank's urges, and instead leads a bizarre existence in which he is completely dominated by his compulsions to clean, eat canned tuna every night, and open his front door three times before he can walk through it. His world is turned upside down, however, when he starts seeing a shrink who helps Roy to get in touch with his missing 14-year-old daughter, Angela (Alison Lohman). Angela soon becomes embroiled in Roy and Frank's scams, pushing Roy to take on a grandiose scheme that could give them financial security for the rest of their lives.
Directed by Ridley Scott, this fast-paced crime drama takes several twists and turns as it works its way towards a surprising conclusion. Cage is perfectly cast as the con artist beset by neuroses and family problems, and has an excellent foil in the younger, more abrasive Rockwell. Weaving a tale of trust, family, friendship and deceit, director Scott utilizes the talents of his actors to delve into complex themes, resulting in a breathtaking film in which nothing can be taken for granted.
Directed by Ridley Scott, this fast-paced crime drama takes several twists and turns as it works its way towards a surprising conclusion. Cage is perfectly cast as the con artist beset by neuroses and family problems, and has an excellent foil in the younger, more abrasive Rockwell. Weaving a tale of trust, family, friendship and deceit, director Scott utilizes the talents of his actors to delve into complex themes, resulting in a breathtaking film in which nothing can be taken for granted.
Description by Warner Home Video:
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly
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- UPC: 085393295523
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