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Titolo originale: The Grifters
Regia: Stephen Frears |
Anno: 1990
Origine: Canada | United States of America |
Generi: Crime Dramma
Tag: based on novel or book | con man | con artist | los angeles, california | horse track | grifter | estafa | neo-noir |
Cast: Anjelica Huston | John Cusack | Annette Bening | Jan Munroe | Robert Weems | Stephen Tobolowsky | Jimmy Noonan | Richard Holden | Henry Jones | Michael Laskin | Eddie Jones | Sandy Baron | Lou Hancock | Gailard Sartain | Noelle Harling | Ivette Soler | Pat Hingle | Paul Adelstein | Jeremy Piven | Gregory Sporleder | David Sinaiko | Jeff Perry | Jon Gries | Micole Mercurio | Charles Napier | J. T. Walsh | Teresa Gilmore | Elizabeth Ann Feeley | Billy Ray Sharkey | Frances Bay | Xander Berkeley | John Gillespie | Juliet Landau | Sy Richardson | Martin Scorsese |

Lilly Dillon è una bella donna che, per conto del potente allibratore Bobo Justus, fa scommesse di copertura utili ad abbassare le quote più elevate che costituiscono un potenziale rischio. Nel compiere il suo lavoro non manca di "grattare" sempre qualcosa al suo capo e tenerlo per sé. Suo figlio Roy è anche lui un truffatore che vive di piccoli colpi. A seguito di uno di questi, non andato a segno, riceve una bastonata all'addome che gli provoca un'emorragia interna che lentamente lo fiacca. Quando Lilly, solitamente operante sulla costa est, deve recarsi all'ippodromo di La Jolla, in California, e dopo ben otto anni si ferma a Los Angeles per visitare Roy, lo trova in condizioni gravissime. Chiamato un dottore della malavita, la donna riesce a salvare la vita del figlio in extremis.

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A part of the film's music ("The City") was used in a McDonalds commercial that aired in the UK in 2 [...] D
Anjelica Huston and John Cusack accepted much less than their usual fees just to be in this movie. D
An excerpt from La signora scompare (1938) features in the film. D
Myra is seen working a con at the offices of Coe, Stark, Fellowes & Associates. Tucker Coe and Richa [...] D
Michelle Pfeiffer was originally considered for the role that went to Annette Bening. D
Sissy Spacek met with Stephen Frears to discuss the part of Lilly. D
Character names "Lilly Dillon" and "Myra Langtry" allude to 1800s actress Lily Langtry. D
Annette Bening's performance is directly inspired by the iconic noir actress Gloria Grahame, particu [...] D
In a late 2013 interview, Anjelica Huston described this role as the most challenging one of her car [...] D
Many of the lines in the film are taken word for word from the book. D
Annette Bening and Gailard Sartain later appeared in Indiziato di reato (1991). D
Stephen Tobolowsky and Eddie Jones later appeared in I signori della truffa (1992). D
The studio wanted Martin Scorsese to direct the film himself, but he personally chose Stephen Frears [...] D
The stock con Myra describes to Roy, when they are in La Jolla, California, is a variation on the "W [...] D
Melanie Griffith was considered for the role of Myra. D
Timothy Carey was considered for a role in this movie. D
The short opening narration is done by Martin Scorsese. D
Some have misunderstood why Anjelica Huston, only fifteen years older than John Cusack, was cast as [...] D
Lily Tomlin was considered for the role of Lilly Dillon. D
Jeremy Piven appears in the small role as one of four sailors whom John Cusack's character meets on [...] D
John Ireland auditioned for the Pat Hingle part. D
John Cusack was a big fan of the book, and tried to option the rights when he was still in high scho [...] D
The actors who play the sailors are from John Cusack's New Crimes theater group from Chicago. D
Cher and Geena Davis both turned down the role of Lilly Dillon. D
Stephen Tobolowsky and Gailard Sartain previously appeared in Mississippi Burning - Le radici dell'o [...] D
Henry Jones' final feature film appearance. D
The Arizona motel sequence, from Lilly's approach through her dialogue with the clerk, mirrors that [...] D
Annette Bening said she accepted to get full frontally nude in this film because she felt the scenes [...] D

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