Action, Comedy, Drama, Crime
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
I Was a Teenage Zombie
Sidewalks of New York
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Virgin
Sixty Six
You Are Alone
Mind the Gap
The Pleasure Drivers
All at Once
Final Justice
Ben & Arthur
Fear
Ibid
Krippendorf's Tribe
4
K-PAX
Jackie Brown
A Clockwork Orange
Trouble in Paradise
Mean Streets
SIMILAR MOVIES
I Was a Teenage Zombie
IMDB 4.7 | Jul , 1987
A high-school student and a drug pusher land in a nuclear-wasted river and come out zombies.Sidewalks of New York
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 2001
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.Truth or Consequences, N.M.
IMDB 6.1 | May , 1997
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.Virgin
IMDB 4.5 | Jun , 2003
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.Sixty Six
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2006
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.You Are Alone
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2005
"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it's a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne, a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort, advertising her services online. Her next door neighbor catches her as the "entertainment" at his nephew's bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with her neighbor. Initially confrontational, Daphne and her neighbor begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex.Mind the Gap
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 2004
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.The Pleasure Drivers
IMDB 4.7 | Jun , 2006
"The Pleasure Drivers" lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbian hit woman, a white trash kidnapper, and a brain-damaged ex-cult guru. It's described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous. The Pleasure Drivers energetically explores the shadow side of Los Angeles and how it gleefully relates to the gasoline of libido.All at Once
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 2014
Tim and Dan - fellow losers from a provincial town. Studies over, they don't want to work and don't have girlfriends. On the way to a dream and hope to get everything at once guys are taken to perform the task of the local bandits.Final Justice
IMDB 2.5 | Oct , 1984
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.Ben & Arthur
IMDB 2.4 | Sep , 2002
A pair of recently married gay men are threatened by one of the partners' brother, a religious fanatic who plots to murder them after being ostracized by his church.Fear
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1946
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.Ibid
IMDB 4.2 | Oct , 2008
Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped from Trinity Psychiatric Center, an 'alternative' institution for the wayward, the pair hits the road on a mission from God. Appearing in the form of an aged cowboy named Don, the Almighty enlists Lionel and Tin to inscribe the Final Commandments in order to save the world from its ultimate destruction; rumored to be soon. Plagued by their own madness they begin to uncover their own dark past which might ultimately lead to their undoing, or at the very least, a serious re-write.Krippendorf's Tribe
IMDB 4.6 | Feb , 1998
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.4
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 2005
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?K-PAX
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2001
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.Jackie Brown
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 1997
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.A Clockwork Orange
IMDB 8.2 | Dec , 1971
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?Trouble in Paradise
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1932
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.Mean Streets
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1973
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.