Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002  R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Clooney
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Julian Hirsch, Jerry Weintraub, Frank Fontaine, Rachelle Lefevre, Kristen Wilson, Chuck Barris
In his autobiography, game show creator/personality Chuck Barris claimed to have led a double life as a CIA hit man. This film adaptation never answers whether the claim is true or false; but the script is fun, and Sam Rockwell gets to the heart of Barris' personality.
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 Ocean's Eleven 2001  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Bernie Mac, Jerry Weintraub, Shaobo Qin, Lori Galinski, Mark Gantt
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) leads a crew of 11 con artists and ex-cons in a plot to rob three Las Vegas casinos–Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM Grand. The net for this heist: $150 million! The casinos that they plan to rob are all owned by Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), and there could be more than the $150 million on Ocean's mind because Benedict just happens to be the boyfriend of Ocean's ex-wife Tess (Julia Roberts).
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Vegas Vacation 1997  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation
Director: Stephen Kessler
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Christie Brinkley, Wayne Newton, Jerry Weintraub, Sid Caesar, Shae D'Lyn, Siegfried Fischbacher, Roy Horn, Wallace Shawn, Julio Oscar Mechoso
This is the fourth in the series of Chevy Chase "Vacation" films about the hapless Griswold family who–by now–should know to NEVER take a family vacation together. The Griswolds visit Las Vegas, and Clark (Chevy Chase) hits the blackjack table and, encouraged by the dealer Marty (Wallace Shawn), loses all of his money. Meanwhile, Clark's wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) falls for lounge singer Wayne Newton (Himself) and is invited to sing with him. Their daughter Audrey (Marisol Nichols) joins up with her stripper cousin Vickie (Shae D'Lyn), and they visit dance clubs. To make the vacation a complete disaster, their son Rusty (Ethan Embry is great at playing dice and falls in with gangsters. Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) offers to help, but will Eddie succeed in bringing the family to its senses?
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| 1. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
2. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
3. Vegas Vacation (1997)
aka: National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation
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