Who Is Cletis Tout
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Director Chris Ver Wiel Music director Randy Edelman Duration Country United States
Canada | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime Screenplay Chris Ver Wiel Writer Chris Ver Wiel Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 12, 2001 (2001-09-12) (Toronto International Film Festival)
July 26, 2002 (2002-07-26) (United States) Cast Christian Slater (Trevor Allen Finch), Tim Allen (Critical Jim), Portia de Rossi (Tess Donnelly), Richard Dreyfuss (Micah Donnelly), Billy Connolly (Dr Savian), RuPaul (Ginger Markum)Similar movies Bill Hicks: Bill Loses it in Chicago , Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian , Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA , George Carlin: Back in Town , Bill Hicks: Relentless , Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Following a successful prison break, two thieves, Finch (Christian Slater), who is skilled in the art of forgery and fraud, and Micah (Richard Dreyfuss), a jewel thief, set out to recover diamonds acquired in a heist some twenty years earlier. After arranging new identities they are thrust into a life-threatening situation when the Mob mistakes Finch for murdered journalist, Cletis Tout.
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- Richard dreyfuss in who is cletis tout 2002 movie trailer
- Plot
- Cast
- Release
- Similar Movies
- Remake
- References
Who is Cletis Tout? is a 2001 action comedy film written and directed by Chris Ver Wiel and starring Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, and Tim Allen. The film is about mistaken identity getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
Plot
The film is told primarily in flashback, as the film first follows a hitman, Critical Jim (Tim Allen), who follows and holds at gunpoint a man he believes is Cletis Tout - but who actually is Finch (Christian Slater). Because Critical Jim is so fond of film noir and other classic films (such as Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffanys), hes willing to listen to Finch as he tells his story, imagining it as a film in progress. Finch obliges, explaining how he got to be mistaken for Cletis Tout.
Finch happened to be in the same jail with Micah (Richard Dreyfuss), who stole diamonds more than 20 years before, then hid the diamonds and soon landed in prison. With Finchs help, Micah manages to break out, and the two get new identities for themselves, courtesy of a coroner (Billy Connolly) who owes Finch a favor.
The problem is that Finchs new identity is that of Cletis Tout, a photojournalist who managed to get a mafia figures son strangling a woman on film. The head of the mafia gets his men to kill Tout (which is how the coroner got the identity for Finch), but when Finch goes to Cletis apartment to look for his passport, a neighbor calls the police, who inform the mafia head that Cletis Tout is still alive.
After Micah meets up with his now grown-up daughter, Tess (Portia de Rossi), hes accidentally shot by the men sent to kill Cletis. Just before dying, Micah gets Finch to promise to watch after his daughter, and thus Tess and Finch begin an uneasy relationship as they look for the diamonds.
Meanwhile, the mafia head decides to bring in a professional, and subsequently calls in Critical Jim to finish the job. However, Critical Jim is more interested in where Finchs story will end - specifically, if hell be able to reconcile with Tess in the end, giving the story a perfect Hollywood ending.
Cast
Release
The film was a box office bomb, grossing $252,706 from a $9 million budget. The film currently holds a 23% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus: "Cliched and endlessly self-referential, Who is Cletis Tout? doesnt add anything original to the crime genre."
Similar Movies
Anthony Kaun Hai? (2006). Richard Dreyfuss appears in Who Is Cletis Tout? and Stakeout. Tim Allen appears in Who Is Cletis Tout? and Big Trouble. Tim Allen appears in Who Is Cletis Tout? and The Santa Clause 2. Christian Slater appears in Who Is Cletis Tout? and Hard Cash.
Remake
There is a Bollywood remake entitled Anthony Kaun Hai (Who is Anthony?) starring Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt, and Minissha Lamba.
References
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