Steven Soderbergh's stylish, sexy game of cat-and-mouse heats up the screen by transporting Classic Hollywood's screwball comedy ethos into a '90s neo-noir.
Adapting Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name, indie innovator Steven Soderbergh's film follows Jack (George Clooney), a charming and unlucky career criminal whose daring prison escape is complicated by a run-in with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). Finding themselves magnetically draw to one another, each grapple with how to square their side of the law with their seemingly fated romantic entanglement. Nominated for two Academy Awards and co-starring '90s indie favorites Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Luis Guzman, Catherine Keener, Don Cheadle, Viola Davis, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, and Michael Keaton. [123 min; neo-noir, comedy; English]
"The narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric. They don't make movies like this anymore, in this overcalculated and overtested era." — Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer
"[Soderbergh] plays with time and narrative to reveal character, mood and, longing in ways you just don't find in a mainstream crime picture." — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"Engaging and consummately entertaining." — Kenneth Turan, Entertainment Weekly
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