The Grifters Comments

  • Misael 2022-01-13 08:01:48

    Five stars are given because it is very worth watching. This is a very special noir film. Although it is a liar, the film does not have any tricks to complete a trick on the screen, and even the drama is minimized. It is a film noir. The essays depicting three swindlers who are swindlers but not good at scams are very similar to those of American literature in the early 20th century. And several actors also showed extraordinary demeanor under the director's almost line-drawn...

  • Dayana 2022-01-13 08:01:48

    Beauty + cleverness loses to caution + tact; prudent + tact loses to ruthlessness + greed. The final blow immediately shattered all the historical meaning of the term...

  • Shaina 2022-01-13 08:01:48

    At first I thought it was a battle of liars, you lied to me and I lied to you Luo Quaner to lie, but I didn’t expect it to be such an ethical film noir in the end... There are a few paragraphs that are a bit difficult to bear, and for the first time I feel that Anjelica Huston is so alluring. The beauty is comparable to Annette Bening, the latter has been naked twice! John Cusack is so lucky, the ending is really...

Extended Reading
  • Lew 2022-01-13 08:01:48

    "Fatal Gamble" in the movie book

    Know the movie
    8.9
    [America] Luis Janetti [Sweden] Ingmar Bergman [Japan] Kurosawa Akira, etc. / 2007 / World Book Publishing Company

    1. Keynote

    The tone of a movie can be manipulated in many ways. For example, the performance style can greatly affect our reaction to a certain scene. In Yi...

  • Jeremie 2022-01-13 08:01:48

    "Thousand Nets Crisis"

    I finally saw this long-lost movie. Before, I wondered how Stephen Freys would make a scam film. I never expected that the key to the plot was messy and ambiguous.
    If you are looking forward to watching a genre movie, then you will be more disappointed, because those tricks and suspense are not the...

The Grifters quotes

  • Lilly Dillon: You're working some angle, and don't tell me you're not because I wrote the book!

    Roy Dillon: What about you? You still handling playback money for the mob?

    Lilly Dillon: THAT's me. That's who I am. You were never cut out for the rackets, Roy.

    Roy Dillon: How come?

    Lilly Dillon: You aren't tough enough.

    Roy Dillon: Not as tough as you, huh?

    Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy.

    Roy Dillon: Why?

    Lilly Dillon: You haven't got the stomach for it.

  • Lilly Dillon: I was hoping we could play it straight with one another.

    Roy Dillon: I guess not.

    Lilly Dillon: I guess you won't be getting a straight job, either.

    Roy Dillon: Not this week.

    Lilly Dillon: Not ever.

    Roy Dillon: It's up to me. I'm strictly short con. It's nothing but small time stuff. I can walk away from it anytime I want.

    Lilly Dillon: Where have I heard that before?

    Roy Dillon: Yeah, but I'm in control.

    Lilly Dillon: Sure. You're only 25 years old, already you can lay down four grand without even turning a hair. Grift's like anything else, Roy. You don't stand still. You either go up or down. Usually down, sooner or later.

    Roy Dillon: Well, I'll let it be a surprise, then.

The Grifters

Director: Stephen Frears

Language: English Release date: January 25, 1991

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