Word: blackmail
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...With that in mind, it's hard to fault the cast given that they've been given such empty and stale material, but each member really doesn't seem to want to be there. Tim Robbins must be appearing either because of blackmail, contractual obligations to Disney or a personal favour to Brian De Palma because he phones in most of his performance (probably when he realized how bad the whole project was going to be). Don Cheadle, who has previously been a solid bit player, lacks charisma here and Jerry O'Connell has the dubious distinction of being upstaged...
Many years ago, Lyle (Jeff Bridges) and Vinnie (Nick Nolte) pulled a complicated race-track scam. It made the former rich, the latter guilt-ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent...
...with guns and explosives squandered any sympathy the Karen rebels had had in Thailand, their traditional safe haven. Within 24 hours, Thai commandos stormed the building, shot dead all the rebels and trussed the bodies in white sheets to show the world that Thailand would not give in to blackmail...
...Donin said that the legal definitions of blackmail and extortion are not correct characterizations of what "Rhys and Douglas" did, though the lawyer confirmed that the University had been solicited about buying the web site names...
...coup, but according to Obasanjo, the real issue is whether the world can afford to pay $30 billion to avoid another military coup in Nigeria. With ambiguities about the future of military institutions in countries such as Nigeria, it would appear that the situation could quickly develop into a blackmail of the global financial assistance system. This is why President Obasanjo's threat to the western world--that if the external debt is not forgiven Nigeria will be forced into a hermit situation to save money--appears to be not so much of a threat...