Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Noble Willingham, Tom Atkins Directed By: Stuart Orme Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 30, 2005 Running Time: 98 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1989
Product Description: There's a different kind of race going on at the track in San Diego but you'd have to be on the inside to know about it. After serving four years Neal Skinner is out of jail but he's put time behind bars to good use- planning his revenge. It was Neal's partner in track security Ebet Berens who framed him in an emerald smuggling deal. Ebet took Neal for everything he had-including his woman-and now Neal wants it back! His plan-- to holdup the track; get Berens put behind bars; and win back the love of the woman he lost-seems simple enough. But Berens knows Skinner is up to something; and Skinner knows Beren knows. Hot on both their trails is Leland an angry cop who a figure there's something crooked going down. It's a brutal game of cross and double-cross with $5 million a car full of emeralds and the love of a beautiful woman at stake.Running Time: 97 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359036323
fun flick This is a really fun movie, and amazingly similar in plot to the remake of *Ocean's 11*, which came many years later.
Brosnan's character is like Danny Ocean, having spent his jail time plotting to get back his girl and get even with the guy who sent him to jail and walked away with the beauty. A cat-and-mouse game follows leading to the finale, where Brosnan's big plan is enacted.
Definitely worth watching.
Beautiful horses -- beautiful Pierce! I am so glad that I bought this movie -- Pierce Brosnan really knows his way around women and horses. I enjoyed the story.
The Heist A fun flick, with beautiful Brosnan growing into his bones as he hit age 35. An elegant man playing a small-time hood is a nice contrast. Note the hair slicked back. Audrey Wood plays the bubble-headed moll who divides her favors between Brosnan and Skerrit, showing little emotion for either guy. Nice seedy race track atmosphere, pretty hot love scenes, and a light hearted adio accompanied by the Spanish version of "My Way". Recommended. Adrienne Fischier, New York City
A Great Heist Movie Where can one start with a review of The Heist. It is a well crafted movie from begining to end. All the colorful characters are well defined and exciting to watch. There is a scene in the middle of the movie where the bad guys are attempting to figure out how Neil "Pierce" is going to rob the track and are able to predict a great many thing and still Neil is able to outwit them all and the cop who is trying to put him back in jail. The Gipsy Kings version of "My Way" at the end is great. Pierce Brosnan loved this story so much and the whole making of a caper movie in general and that this is one of the reasons he went on to develop and star in the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair", but thats another movie review.
Brosnan's good, but movie doesn't make it around the track This movie is a poorly made farce, on a par with a bad "I Love Lucy" episode. Its only virtues are a fine performance by Pierce Brosnan, showing the "action" talent he later developed as Thomas Crowne and James Bond, and the Gypsy Kings' cover of "My Way".
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