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Film-noir fans quickly spotted the similarities between the Kimeses and the mother-and-son team of con artists in The Grifters, the 1990 movie starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack. But any reader of dime-store detective novels knows that true grifters take their haul by trickery, not violence. When the police investigation is over, the Kimeses may be known by a less exotic word in the criminal lexicon: murderers...
...where he's just done a five-year stretch with three missions. The first, and most hilariously pressing, is to find a place to take a pee. The next is to find a girl willing to pose as his fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into a life of crime...
...young man, pretty much incapacitated by rage, and not too bright to begin with, to handle. But Gallo, who also wrote, directed and scored Buffalo '66 , is a smart young filmmaker, not least in his casting. Gazzara, angrily mourning his lost career as a local lounge singer, and Huston, obsessing on the Bills' football frustrations, are glorious eccentrics. And Christina Ricci, as the tap dancer Billy forces to play his faux fiance, is just lovely. She falls into instant love with her abductor, and with a kind of patient ferocity redeems his sanity...
...started on Gene Tierney. 8. Cool Hand Luke (1967). It is impossible to see this movie too many times. And if you are the right kind of person, it will make you want to go to jail. 9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1981). Bogey and Walter Huston get out in the sun for a real psychological gripper. 10. Citizen Kane (1940). I know, I know, it's number one -- just trying to mix things up a little around here...
...between games or after, try Victory (1981). It's the best of all things for anyone in a fist pumping mood: a war movie, a sports movie and a prison movie. And a John Huston movie. It's also Sylvester Stallone at his most tolerable, and Michael Caine at his . . . well, he's always good...