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Matchstick Men (2003)  link to Matchstick Men on IMDb  

Number: 721

cover Matchstick Men

IMDb Rating:
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7.3/10 (112.4K votes)

Country: United States, 116 minutes

Spoken languages: English

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director(s): Ridley Scott

Storyline:
Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations--which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy's private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he's forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter--a child whose existence he...

Cast:

Nicolas Cage Roy Waller
Sam Rockwell Frank Mercer
Alison Lohman Angela
Bruce Altman Dr. Klein
Bruce McGill Chuck Frechette

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Drawer 3 Slot 58

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1