DVD
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The grifters
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN, WSQ)
Performers
John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening.
Publication Information
[Santa Monica, California] : Miramax, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
When small-time cheat Roy Dillon winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly and sexy girlfriend Myra. Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless con artists playing the game in a league far above Roy-- and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning whom as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust.
Notes
Title from container.
Based upon the novel "The grifters" by Jim Thompson.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.