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The Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir [1] crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening. [2] The screenplay was written by Donald E. Westlake, based on Jim Thompson 's 1963 novel. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and was ...
The Grifters: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe. A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Frears
- 1991-01-25
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Jan 25, 1991 · The con man is sweet and almost gentle as he devastates his victim. In a sense, he really does like her. In Stephen Frears ‘ “The Grifters,” there aren’t any outsiders to be seduced, because the three central characters are all confidence tricksters. So they seduce each other. The movie is based on a 1950s novel, but it’s set in the ...
The Grifters. A dark-hearted neonoir comes to a boil under the bright Los Angeles sun, in British director Stephen Frears’s rousing adaptation of the novel by dime-store bard Jim Thompson, a film that raises pulp to the realm of existential tragedy. A possessive mother (Anjelica Huston), her cynical son (John Cusack), and his scheming ...
In L.A., Roy Dillon (John Cusak), Lily's 25-year-old estranged son, works several small-time cons. One of his tricks is showing a bartender a $20 bill then slyly switching it for a ten, fooling the bartender in to giving him change for a $20. One day, Roy is caught by one of his marks who seizes his arm and jabs him hard in the chest with the ...
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Hard-as-nails Lily Dillon (Anjelica Huston) works as a swindler for dangerous bookie Bobo (Pat Hingle), probably the only man she fears. Arriving in Los Angeles on "business," Lily looks up her ...
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