Description:

Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protege, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations--which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy's private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he's forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter--a child whose existence he...

Directed By:

Ridley Scott

Written By:

Eric Garcia (book), Nicholas Griffin (screenplay) (as Nick Griffin) |1 more credit

Genres:

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Date:

12 September 2003 (USA)

Language:

English

Runtime:

116 min | 120 min

Origin/Country:

USA

Shooting Location:

3508 Meier St, Los Angeles, California, USA