| | | Keep Your Friends Close and Your Money Closer.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
When professional grifter Jake Vig (Edward Burns) chooses the wrong mark in The King (Dustin Hoffman), he is given two choices: pull off a near impossible heist or lose his life. Needing all the help he can get, Jake brings in beautiful con artist Lily (Rachel Weisz) and a mixed group of "professionals." Nonetheless, with The King riding him and a pesky Special Agent (Andy Garcia) on his tail, Jake and his team look to have the odds stacked against them.System Requirements:Running Time: 97 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE
"...compelling crime caper full of smoothly navigated plot twists. " David Rooney, Variety
"Scenes with Burns crackle with the toxic energy that makes Confidence a game worth playing." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...Burns's best film since "Saving Private Ryan."" Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Ed Burns gives the best performance of his career in James Foley's fast-moving CONFIDENCE. Foley, who directed David Mamet's GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, has learned much from his mentor, making a who's-conning-whom film worthy of the master of the genre. Burns plays Jake Vig, the leader of a small group of con artists who unknowingly steals money from a sleazy but powerful underworld lord known as King. In order to get his dough back, King forces Vig and his gang to pull off a nearly impossible con that could get nearly everyone involved killed. Meanwhile, Vig is being watched closely by a stubbly federal agent who is following the money.Foley has put together a terrific cast, including Paul Giamatti and Rachel Weisz as part of Vig's crew, Andy Garcia as the fed, Dustin Hoffman as King, and Luis Guzman and Donal Logue as two cops on the take. As in Mamet's films, the audience will have to keep guessing whose side the characters are on right up until the final shot, never quite knowing who's conning whom.
| Features | Audio Commentary With Director James Foley, Screenwriter Doug Jung & Cast | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes | | Featurette: Anatomy Of A Scene | | Interactive Menus | | Music Videos | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment |
| Release Date: 10/3/2006 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 20111 | | UPC: 00031398710967 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Its shell-game plot is alive with organic trickery..." 05/02/2003 p.49Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Hoffman has fun with his role as the sleazy crime lord; it's one of his most energetic performances in recent years..." 05/01/2003 p.114-15 Sight and Sound
"CONFIDENCE is a con-trick thriller in the style of David Mamet..." 10/01/2003 p.46 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
Most of Confidence is told in flashback. This allows protagonist Jake Vig (Edward Burns) to narrate his tale (and he never seems to stop talking... blah, blah, blah). Jake's tone is self-deprecating. He knows that the con man relies upon three things: human nature, planning, and luck...Confidence has a high enough entertainment quotient that it's possible to overlook a great many flaws. This brash production doesn't expect a lot more from its audience than undivided attention. It plays by the genre's rules and toys with the viewer's expectations, but it never does anything truly unexpected or amazing. For those who enjoy movies about heists, cons, and double-crosses, this will satisfy. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Confidence is a flawless exercise about con games, and that is precisely its failing: It is an exercise. It fails to make us care, even a little, about the characters and what happens to them. There is nothing at stake. The screenplay gives away the game by having the entire story narrated in flashback by the hero, who treats it not as an adventure but as a series of devious deceptions which he can patiently explain to the man holding a gun on him--and to us. At the end, we can see how smart he is and how everybody was fooled, but we don't care. - Roger Ebert
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