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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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John Frankenheimer
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Actors:
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Charlize Theron,
Isaac Hayes,
Hrothgar Mathews,
Douglas Arthurs,
Dana Stubblefield,
Ron Sauvé,
Ben Affleck,
James Frain,
Mark Acheson,
Tom Heaton,
Michael Sunczyk,
Dean Wray,
Ron Jeremy,
Clarence Williams III,
Donal Logue
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Duration:
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100 min.
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)82.5
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Plot Summary:
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Directed by veteran suspense filmmaker John Frankenheimer, this offence drama stars Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, and Dennis Farina. Ex-con Rudy Duncan (Affleck) is determined to keep his nose cleanse and fashion something of his life with his girlfriend Ashley (Theron). Trouble brews when a jailbird acquaintance embroils him in a scheme to rook out of a casino over the Christmas holidays.
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Tags:
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Reindeer Games
Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron star in a labyrinthine crime thriller by Manchurian Candidate director John Frankenheimer. Ex-con Ben Affleck takes on a false identity in order to woo Charlize Theron but ends up embroiled in a plan to rob a casino
With over 40 years' worth of thrillers behind him, director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) knew a thing or two about the mechanics of tension. Deception was his last full-length feature (he died in 2002) and it suffers from a slightly confusing script by flavour-of-the-moment Ehren Kruger (Arlington Road, Scream 3). What it does boast, however, is a good-looking cast and an extraordinarily tangled plot. Thanks to the noirish atmospherics, what emerges is a faintly tongue-in-cheek tribute to the ...
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