Reindeer Games (Director's Cut)
by John Frankenheimer
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Actor: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Dana Stubblefield, Gary Sinise, James FrainDirector: John Frankenheimer
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Andrew Rona
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Cary Granat
Producer: Casey Grant
Producer: Chris Moore
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Writer: Ehren Kruger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dimension
Movie Reviews of Reindeer Games (Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Ben Affleck in Reindeer Games
Summary: 5 Stars
Ben Affleck fan,gives a good performance and manages to be the hero in this film.
Affleck plays a prison inmate, Rudy Duncan who is
about to be released in 3 days with his pal NIck Cassidy (James Frain).
Nick is an ex-convict who dreams about the girl
that keeps writing him letters, who he has never met. Ashley Mercer.
Everthing seems great for Nick and Rudy,but a prison lunch room fight ends up in the killing of Nick. Rudy just barely ends up getting killed himself.
Then on the day of his release ,Rudy awaits outside along with
the other inmates for the bus that will take them away from their hell hole.
Rudy is about to board the bus when he spots a girl waiting for somebody.
Taking into consideration that Ashley,Nick's admirer doesnt know that Nick has been killed ,Rudy realizes that this girl is indeed Ashley. However, knowing that the girl is waiting for Nick, Rudy decides to take the identity of his friend.
This at first seems like a good decision that Rudy has made, he gets to spend a night with a great girl,but then trouble starts brewing in.
Ashley's so called brother,Gabriel (played well by Gary Sinise) enters and he starts to beat the hell out of Rudy, thinking that Rudy is indeed Nick.
You see Nick used to work in the gambling casinos and he was planning a big robbery which would make him rich.
Rudy at first denies he is NIck,but this just leads to more trouble, then Rudy tries to make a run for it and he is caught.
Then Rudy goes along with the fact that he is Nick
and manages to stay long enough to turn the
tables on the would be burglars.
There is alot more to Reindeer Games, at first
we are lead to belive that Ashley and Gabriel are siblings,
but later on this is not the case.
There are so many twists and turns that just
when you think it's over,it's not.
This is the latest movie by John Frankenheimer and
he shows that he can still make great movies in the
year 2000 (He has been making films for over 50 years.)
Id tell you more, but that would take all the fun
out of it.
Dont listen to the critics, they too were fooled
by the different twists of the movie.
The movie became a big box office hit and made Ben Affleck recognizable as more than a comedic, drama type actor, he has shown that he can play the hero too.
Summary of Reindeer Games (Director's Cut)
Sizzling hot Ben Affleck (PEARL HARBOR) and Charlize Theron (THE CIDER HOUES RULES) team up with Gary Sinise (MISSION TO MARS) in this action-packed story of high-stakes crime and deception. Upon release from a stint in prison, Rudy (Affleck) impulsively decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to make time with Nick's beautiful pen pal, Ashley (Theron). But Rudy's ruse blows up when he realizes that Ashely was double-crossing Nick ... and he's inescapably part of an armed robbery plot being hatched by her dangerously evil brother (Sinise)! Also featuring Clarence Williams III (LIFE), Danny Trejo (CON AIR), and Dennis Farina (GET SHORTY) -- don't miss this intensely entertaining, nonstop movie thrill ride!To fully enjoy Reindeer Games, it must be approached properly: your disbelief must be checked at the door, as this John Frankenheimer film needs be taken with a liberal dose of pure faith in the magic of movie plotting.
Christmas approaches and all Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) can think about is the hot chocolate and pecan pie beckoning when he gets out of prison in a couple of days. But standing between him and his sated stomach is Ashley (Charlize Theron), an irresistible woman waiting for him upon his release. Without giving away any of the myriad twists of this thriller, Rudy falls for Ashley, thus becoming forcibly embroiled in a casino-robbery scheme helmed by Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise).
Frankenheimer, who excels at devious plot machinations, à la The Manchurian Candidate, goes far enough here to stretch the patience of even his most loyal fans. The script relies a little heavily on bad Christmas jokes, and the film is overwhelmed with close-ups. The convoluted turns become outrageous to the point of ludicrous; yet it's all done in the spirit of fun, and once you get past the implausibility, Frankenheimer takes you on a rousing ride. While Affleck doesn't seem quite hardened enough to be a convicted car thief, he does a superb job with a thin script, and Sinise is as sinister as ever. Theron provides more decoration than acting due to the lightweight plot, but my, what lovely decoration she is. For a thought-provoking evening, stick with the earlier Frankenheimer films; for an adrenaline-pumping evening, Reindeer Games has all the violence, chases, and sex scenes for a night of entertaining diversion. --Jenny Brown