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...feel like doing it again." So he directed Ghost, the hit 1990 supernatural romance that won Goldberg an Oscar, as well as First Knight, the dud 1995 Arthurian epic starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere. He also produced 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, but not until Rat Race did he get back behind the camera to make another madcap comedy. "It took me a while to get over First Knight," Zucker says. "I like to communicate to a mass audience. If I fail at that, I feel I haven't made a good movie...
Zucker originally envisioned a dream team for the Rat Race cast. "We started out looking at the $20 million players," says the director, who had hoped that comedy titans like Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith and Adam Sandler would trim their fees to form a star-studded ensemble. "I guess in the beginning we all thought everybody would just have to work for two weeks, so we could afford these deals," says Zucker. "But then when we laid out the schedule, it was four or five or six weeks for each actor." He quickly set his sights...
...might say Rat Race is an updated variant of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, except that the new film was directed by a guy who actually has a sense of humor (Jerry Zucker) and written by a funny guy named Andy Breckman...
...comedy. Action movies like The Score are tired and talky. Romantic comedy like America's Sweethearts is as flat as yesterday's bottled water. And judging by The Others, even ghosts are turning into gormless dinner guests who have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction and divinely orchestrated lunacy. This may (or may not) say something about the pathology of our everyday life. But the faith that is driving the Rat Race characters through their uncharitable activities is pure greed and pure solipsism...
...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...