Breaking the Rules (film)
5.8 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Screenplay Paul W. Shapiro Writer Paul W. Shapiro Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 9, 1992 (1992-10-09) Cast Similar movies Uptight (1968), The Soloist (2009), The Bramble Bush (1960), Telling Lies in America (1997), Draft Day (2014) |
Breaking the rules 1992
Breaking the Rules is a 1992 American drama film directed by Neal Israel, executive produced by Larry A. Thompson, starring Jason Bateman, C. Thomas Howell, Jonathan Silverman and Annie Potts. Jason's father, Kent Bateman, has a role in the movie as well.
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Plot

Phil (Jason Bateman) is a cancer stricken man who tricks his two best friends, Gene (C. Thomas Howell) and Rob (Jonathan Silverman), whom he hasn't seen in a long time, to go on a road trip, by inviting them to a fake engagement party. This has the potential for problems because Gene once stole Rob's girlfriend. Phil gets them to be friends again. He tells them of his illness and all three decide to go to Los Angeles for Phil's dying wish: to be a contestant on "Jeopardy." On the way there they meet an attractive wild woman with a heart of gold (Annie Potts).
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Reception

Roger Ebert savaged the film in his contemporary review, damning its inauthentic script wherein "one appalling scene follows another". In an exasperated tone, he asked: "Was there no one to cry out, Stop this madness? No one to read the script and see that it was without sense or sensibility? No one to listen to the dialogue and observe that nobody in the world ever talked like this?"
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