Too much is never enough.
Features: DVD
Small-time hustler, Pendleton "Penny" Wise (Vince Vaughn - Made, The Cell, The Lost World: Jurassic Park), finds himself faced with an opportunity he can't turn down when a seductive woman, Caitlin (Julia Ormond - Sabrina, Legends of the Fall), introduces him to legendary con artist Kelly Grant (3-Time Oscar® nominee Ed Harris). With the promise of fast cash and the possibility of a deeper relationship with Caitlin, Penny takes his chances as he matches wits against the "big boys." Featuring great performances by an all-star cast, this moody and suspenseful thriller about the scam of a lifetime will keep you guessing until the very end.
Editor's Note
Given a telephone, small-time scam artist Pendleton Wise, also known as Penny (Vince Vaughn), can talk people into almost anything. But as he whiles away his time in a small office, selling fake travel packages to the unsuspecting public, Penny dreams of something bigger, of the prime gig. His ship finally comes in, in the form of a sexy young woman named Caitlin (Julia Ormond), who spots Penny's talent and invites him to join a project led by the legendary con man Kelly Grant (Ed Harris). Fresh out of prison, Grant is operating in top secrecy. He claims to have found a mine which contains $30 million in gold; if his telemarketers can just raise two and a half million to mine it, the payoff will be huge for everyone.Penny enthusiastically signs on; he's playing with the big boys now, and as they've promised, the dough is soon rolling in. Within just a couple of weeks, his bank account contains almost a hundred thousand dollars. But trouble ensues after he and Grant become rivals for Caitlin's affections, and Penny loses sight of rule #1: never trust another con. The feature debut of Tony-award winning theater director Gregory Mosher, the film is a moody and sensitively acted thriller.
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