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DVD The Prime Gig
Vince Vaughn stars in this story of high-pressure boiler room telemarketing scams. Vaughn plays Pendelton "Penny" Wise (get it?), a small-time operator who's looking for a bigger score. He takes a "prime gig" with Kelly Grant (Ed Harris), a high-stakes player with a shady gold mine to sell. Prime Gig sets up an unusual tension: you want to root for Penny even though you know he may be bilking people out of their life savings and is most definitely a sleazebag. Harris does well, making what could have been a typical Gordon Gekko knockoff character a little more internalized and interesting, and Julia Ormond does a fine job of fleshing out a character who very well may have been named "Romantic Interest." Vaughn uses his onscreen persona well here--he deftly maintains the hero-scumball balance, never quite letting go of either. Prime Gig is not a perfectly realized movie, but a compelling watch nonetheless. --Ali Davis
Vince Vaugh's great performance highight this film
This is a great movie with a great cast however Vince Vaughn gives perhaps his best dramatic performance to date. Unlike Will Ferrel, Vaughn can do both comedy and drama.
This is a great movie thats shows us the real sleazy and corrupt world of telemarketing. In fact if your a telemarketer watching this film , youll probably be mad since it exposed your corrupt jobs!! lol
Vaughn plays Penny Wise, a small but great telemarketer who knows how to con people into making sales for his cheap company.
Eventually a bigger telemarketing scheme headed by the character of Ed Harris wants to use Penny's "skills" in this area to pull of a Million Dollar scam.
Meanwhile Penny's friend is out of work and relies on him for support.
Penny is caught in a corner, work with this rich white scoundrels to steal millions and sell his soul to the devil , so to speak, or do the right thing?
This a great movie about moral dilemna and what you really do if you really had to put your money where your mouth and live up to your own idealogies.
All the performances are great and the movie, doesn't really tell you what Penny's "final decision" will be until the 10 minutes he "goes along" with the scam and looks like he will do it with the rest of them.
Highly recommended.
good film
if you're looking for a pure heist film, this one is only average; i'd recommend the argentinian "nine queens." i think the prime gig goes somewhat deeper. the relationship between penny and the old lady is realized very gracefully in just a few minutes. vince vaughn shows some really impressive range here. the ending leaves you a little flat, but i think it's fitting. why spend 5 bucks to rent the movie when you can buy it for just 10? it's definitely worth it.
Moving On Up
An average movie about a small-time high-talent phone con man who gets a break and chance at the 'big time' in his professions. No more squeezing out twenty-five and fifty dollar orders after he joins on as a salesman at new firm hocking the next big investment deal to widows, retirees, and anyone with enough in the bank.
Filled with quirky characters and stereotypes the office is the battlefield where only the best can hack it.
A few rolls in the hay with the boss's chick and a couple of sales later the end comes crashing down.
Nice idea, kind of cute, would not rent it again though.
Set in Montana's Big Sky country, shot in Utah, lensed by Eric Alan Edwards (cinematographer of My Own Private Idaho)--no wonder it's hard to tell where Clay Pigeons lives, or where it's going. A Ridley Scott protégé previously at home in commercials and videos, debuting director David Dobkin aims to deliver us into the blackly comedic badlands of neo-noir, territory mined by the likes of Red Rock West and Fargo. Pigeons launches strongly, with several cruel turns of the screw. Out target-shooting, Clay Birdwell (Joaquin Phoenix) is hit with the news that his best pal knows he's been boffing his ur-slut wife (Georgina Cates) and could take Clay out on the spot, but chooses a creepier revenge--committing suicide in order to frame the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Joaquin Phoenix - Georgina Cates - Vince Vaughn Director(s): David Dobkin DVD Release Date: Released the 05 November 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Hollywood sometimes slips up and makes an excellent film. This is one of them. The beauty of the film is that it is never what you expect. The minute I saw Vaughn on the screen,I figured this was going to be a story about the usual "young drifter" having an affair with the lonely older woman, while secretly falling in love with the "girl next door." This is NOT that movie. Check it out. More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Patrick Kelley DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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In Malaysia, three young Americans with little else in common are united in a shared enthusiasm for beer, women, and righteous hashish. Eventually, "Sheriff" (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad) head back to New York. Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), a spacey but good-hearted sort, stays on with the notion of helping save the orangutans. Two years later, a brassy lawyer (Anne Heche) shows up in Manhattan with the news that her client, Lewis, has spent the interim in Penang prison. Arrested for a prankish misdemeanor they all shared in, he's taking the rap for something worse: the dope stash they left him holding was a fatal few grams over the limit. Unless his fellow Americans return voluntarily to (literally) share the weight, in eight days Lewis will be hanged as a drug... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Vince Vaughn - Anne Heche - Joaquin Phoenix Director(s): Joseph Ruben DVD Release Date: Released the 05 November 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Progressing beyond their indie hit Swingers, Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughan return with Made, playing (respectively) Bobby and Ricky, long-time pals in Los Angeles. Failing as amateur boxers, they're recruited by their mob-connected boss (Peter Falk) to make what should be an easy delivery to an East Coast kingpin named Ruiz (Sean "P. Diddy" Combs). By the time they reach New York, Bobby's no-nonsense approach has been bulldozed by Ricky's hopelessly false bravado, which he's blithely absorbed from too many mobster movies. While Ricky invites disaster with reckless ambition, Bobby just wants a happier, legitimate future for his stripper girlfriend (Famke Janssen) and her neglected young daughter.
For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles "lounge" scene that was in vogue during the early and mid-1990s, here's the movie that virtually defined that brief but colorful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss, and male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, and lurk through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest buddy, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, and Trent uses the word "money" as an adjective ("Man, we... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Vince Vaughn - Heather Graham Director(s): Doug Liman DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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