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Slingshot
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1hr 30min
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2005
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Weinstein Company
Synopsis: Taylor (Balthazar Getty) and Ashley (David Arquette) have been best friends since they were boys. They've grown older and stuck together, making a meager living, drifting across the country running low-level cons. They end up in Fairfield, CT, where Ashley thinks they can scam rich lonely housewives. At a children's hockey game, Taylor chats up Karen (Julianna Margulies), who seems to fit their victim profile to a T. She's depressed and unsatisfied in her second marriage. Her teenage daughter from ... Full Synopsis
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Fast Bobby (Svetlana Metkina), the laughably unconvincing beautiful Russian crimelord in Jay Alaimo's Slingshot, describes the main characters' have-affairs-with-lonely-middle-aged-housewives-then-rob-them-blind scheme as "impressive, dangerous...and oh so boring." Well, she's right about the last one. Films about professional con men generally hinge on the audience believing that the grifters are ... Full Review
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