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Synopsis: In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen ho
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
2000
119 min
$14,934,238
Website
706 Views


Get out of the way!

Police! Move! Move!

Look out!

Get out of the way!

Excuse me.

Get out of the way!

Back up! Back up!

Look out! Look out! Look out!|Excuse me!

Damn!

Hold it right there!

Freeze!

He's jumped. He's jumped.

Lisa! Lisa, baby.

Lisa, Lisa. Wake up, baby. Wake up.

- I'm getting him out.|- What are you doing with Gregory?

I know, I know, I know....

Hold on. I'm gonna be|right there. Calm down, okay?

I'll be right back to get you.

Lisa, you got to wake up.

Ain't nothing wrong with the baby.

We got a situation.

What is that?

- That's a bomb, baby.|- A bomb?

- It's a kaboom bomb, not a kapow bomb.|- That's a really big bomb. Pull it!

Pull it!

Come on, Alvin.

Where's the baby? I can hear him.|Where's my baby, Alvin?

What's that? What's that?

All right. Turn your head.

Hurry up. Come on.|What's going on?

Turn your face!

Oh, God, Alvin. Where's the baby?

Come on and burn it. Get it out.|Where's the...

I can hear the baby.|Where's my baby, Alvin?

Sh*t!

Just take the baby.|Just take the baby and run.

Come on, come on, come on!|Let's go get the baby now!

- Get him! I gotta take care of this!|- Alvin, no!

Sh*t.

What the f***? F*** that.

Some sh*t I do know how|to do right here.

Oh, sh*t. Get out of the way!

I got a bomb. You got to move!

Move the horses.

Get blown up, then.

Move out of the way!

Oh, sh*t, the brakes!

No! Oh, sh*t!

Running out of time. Oh, sh*t!

Brakes!

Oh, sh*t!

Hey!

Now, come on.|Man, you almost shot me!

Sh*t!

You could've f***ed around|and shot me.

But I didn't.

Well, I guess I owe you one.

- I guess you do.|- Yeah. Yeah.

- Hey!|- Oh, man, this trick shoulder.

It's from the gunshot.|I got reflexes.

I can't really control my sh*t.

I suppose I had that coming.

It's okay.

Get that piece of sh*t out of here.

Y'all did bust me upside the head|with a brick.

We did a lot more than that.

You didn't touch me|in different places? Because...

No. Whether you know or not, you|did a good thing for your country.

We need to talk about what|the country's gonna do for me.

I ain't having a good day.

You got some aspirin on you?

You want chewable?

You be rolling with the sh*t|in your pocket?

- You don't smoke, do you?|- No.

You got some water?

Oh, boy. Look. Yes, sir.

Hey, you two.

Hey, what's happening? Oh, man....

- Y'all have fun?|- Yeah, we had a good time.

Let's make another one.

We had a question to ask you.

What might that be?

My man G has already mastered|the craft of eating applesauce.

He's a genius like me.|We're thinking of moving up...

to peanut butter, but I don't want|his mouth to get stuck all together.

Baby, he already eats peanut butter.

Look at that. I can't believe|you had me come all the way here.

You done bamboozled me.

Excuse me, I'm sorry.

I'm looking for The Bronx Zoo|by Sparky Lyle.

The Bronx Zoo? Did you try upstairs|in the nature section?

It's not about nature.|It's about baseball.

The Yankees?

Yankee Stadium?|They call it the Bronx Zoo.

Okay. Check in the back|on the left side, in sports.

Bronx Zoo?

"There's no place...

like home".

I need to make a phone call...

to my accountant.

Clenteen.

Edgar, what's up?

I'm hurt. You never write.|You don't call.

Alvin, how you doing?

I'm doing pretty good.|About to do a lot better.

Let me ask you:
what's your|policy on finder's fees?

That depends on what you find.

How about $40 million in gold?

- You know where the gold is?|- I might.

Don't mess with me, Alvin.

I got a pretty good idea|of where it is.

It's in the back ofmy head.

What's it gonna take|to get it to the front?

- You tell me.|- How does five percent sound?

Five percent?|Five percent is bullshit!

Two million dollars is bullshit?

Oh, that's five percent,|is two million?

Oh, well, I see. I was multiplying|and forgot to carry the two.

I carried it, just not far enough.

What I'm saying is,|two million dollars could work.

I've got to explain some things.

Med school for Gregory ain 't cheap.

Where's the gold, Alvin?

Let me ask you something:

Do you like baseball?

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Andrew Scheinman

Andrew Scheinman is an American film and television producer, as well as a film director and screenwriter. Before he got his start in entertainment, he worked as a professional tennis player, as well as earning a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973. He is one of the heads of Castle Rock Entertainment. He won an Emmy Award for producing Seinfeld and was nominated for an Academy Award for producing A Few Good Men. more…

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