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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
The plan is set. The rules are clear. If all goes right for Danny Ocean's grifters, the payoff is $150 million. Divided by 11. You do the math.The skill of Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh combines with enough starpower to light up the Las Vegas strip in this classy caper. George Clooney plays Danny, defying the odds in a split-second heist of three Vegas casinos - all owned by a magnate (Andy Garcia) who is dating Danny's ex-wife (Julia Roberts). A fixer (Brad Pitt), a pickpocket (Matt Damon), a blackjack dealer (Bernie Mac), a flimflammer (Carl Reiner) and others in well-defined roles are with Danny. Are you in or out?
"...slick, sleek, and stylish, and if it doesn't quite redefine cool, it certainly offers a snazzy update." Jay Carr, Boston Globe
"...one expertly made piece of pure, unpretentious popcorn entertainment." Michael Dequina, Film Threat
"One thoroughbred of a movie. Sleek, well-muscled and brisk..." Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
"...a scrumptious and dizzy-spirited lark...the sheer speed and cleverness of the caper hits you like a shot of pure oxygen." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Loosely based on the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name, OCEAN'S 11 is a hi-tech crime comedy that features a top-notch cast. Con man Danny Ocean (George Clooney) has just been released from a four-year jail term and decides that his first order of business is robbing three Las Vegas casinos owned by the slimy Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). To pull off this nearly impossible task, he quickly assembles an eclectic crew--including a card shark (Brad Pitt), a pickpocket (Matt Damon), an explosives expert (Don Cheadle), and an aging gambler (Carl Reiner)--and seeks financial backing from a freewheeling casino mogul (Elliott Gould) who holds a grudge against Benedict. However, it soon becomes apparent that Ocean has more at stake than money and his newly found freedom--his ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), just happens to be Benedict's new girlfriend. Can Ocean steal back Tess's heart and more than a hundred million dollars at the same time? Continuing an impressive streak of films that began with OUT OF SIGHT and THE LIMEY and exploded into even wider acclaim and popularity with ERIN BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC, Steven Soderbergh helms this star-studded caper flick with a strong sense of style and humor. Clooney and Pitt, in particular, have a great rapport and both exude a suave, laid-back charm. Damon, Cheadle, Gould, and Reiner all provide excellent comic turns, while Garcia gives an appropriately sinister performance. The whole glittery package is topped off by David Holmes' engaging score, which ties together the sounds and moods of Hollywood past and present.
| Features | 3 Theatrical Trailers | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Behind-The-Scenes Documentaries: HBO First Look - The Making Of Ocean's Eleven & The Look Of The Con | | Cast Film Highlights | | Dubbed: French | | DVD-ROM Features: In Or Out? Challenge Cuts You In On The Caper, Link to the Original Theatrical Web Site & Other Locations, & Log In To Future Online Events | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Two Feature-Length Audio Commentaries: One With Stars Matt Damon, Andy Garcia & Brad Pitt, The Other With Director Steven Soderbergh & Screenwriter Ted Griffin |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Ocean's Eleven (2001) - DVD Review By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/15/2007 4:23 AM | |
In the words of George Peppard from his immortal role on TV’s The A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together, and, man, does it ever come together in nearly every possible way in Steven Soderbergh’s very clever, stylish, slick, and engrossing remake of the Rat Pack ensemble heist film Ocean’s Eleven.
Since his feature debut with sex, lies and videotape, Soderbergh has walked the tenuous line between art and entertainment. He very rarely insults his audiences’ intelligence or sense of humor or style -- even when he busted into the Hollywood big time. Now, a year after picking up his Oscar for the epic Traffic, he shows his range by dipping back into his old cheeky, seductive comedic bag of tricks last seen in Out of Sight....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/10/2009 |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 116320 | | UPC: 00085391163206 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2002) | | | MTV Award, George Clooney, Best Dressed | | | MTV Award, George Clooney, et. al., Best On-Screen Team |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[Soderbergh] rallies a seismic jolt of enthusiasm, and the movie is an elating blaze of flair and pride..." 12/07/2001 p.E1Box Office
"...A fun heist movie....There are many clever exchanges, particularly between Clooney and Pitt..." 01/01/2002 p.59 Variety
"...Clooney and Soderbergh make it happen....[The] entire cast seems spontaneous and relaxed..." 12/03/2001 p.33-7 Sight and Sound
"...Purely in terms of colour palette, Soderbergh has no peer..." 03/01/2002 p.53 Total Film
"...It's Soderbergh's soufflé-light, super-bright direction and the actor's throbbing charisma that makes OCEAN'S ELEVEN as dazzling as The Strip itself..." 03/01/2002 p.92-3 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Amusing....[With] some nice dialogue..." 03/03/2002 p.32 Entertainment Weekly
"...Soderbergh leads his cast through an exercise in splendidly deadpan form over content..." 05/10/2002 p.56 Uncut
"Never has 21st-century Vegas looked so seductive." 07/01/2004 p.131 ReelViews 8 of 10
The good news is that the 2001 version of Ocean's Eleven represents one of the rarest of Hollywood rarities: a re-make that is actually better than the original. That's not to say that this motion picture is an unqualified success - one tends to expect a little more from a director of Steven Soderbergh's caliber. However, 2001's Ocean's Eleven moves along at an enjoyable clip and relies on more than the notoriety of its stars to pack movie theaters. The 1960 original was a sluggish, unimpressive caper comedy...When producer Jerry Weintraub, director Soderbergh, and actor George Clooney elected to re-make Ocean's Eleven, they rectified some of the earlier movie's glaring faults. So, while this is a re-make in the sense that it borrows the 1960 picture's title and premise, there are many, many differences, almost all of which represent improvements. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
This is a standard genre picture, a remake of the 1960 Frank Sinatra caper, and Soderbergh, who usually aims higher, does it as a sort of lark. It's slick, all right: directors this good don't usually handle material this routine. It has yearnings above its natural level, as if hoping to redeem itself and metamorphose into a really good movie...As movie capers go, the specifics in "Ocean's Eleven" are not necessarily state of the art. I can think of more ingeniously executed plans, most recently in "The Score," but then this is not a movie about suspense but about suavity. Clooney and Roberts deliberately evoke the elegance of stars like Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, Garcia is as smooth, groomed, polished and tailored as George Raft, and the movie blessedly ends not with a shootout but with a complicated plot finesse. I enjoyed it. It didn't shake me up and I wasn't much involved, but I liked it as a five-finger exercise. - Roger Ebert
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