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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Crime Comedy

Nice guys finish last. Meet the winners.

Release Date: 1988, December 14
Directors: Frank Oz
Countries: United States of America
Production: Orion Pictures
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Frances Conroy, Meagen Fay, André Penvern, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Xavier Maly, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Louis Zorich

Overview:

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

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