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Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

  • Status: Released
  • 09-04-1999
  • Runtime: 92 min
  • Score: 5.698
  • Vote count: 131

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.

Alessandro Nivola

Nick

Reese Witherspoon

Lissa

Josh Brolin

Bryce

Gene Wolande

Lawyer

Jonathan McMurtry

Vet

Terrance Sweeney

Priest

Rebecca Klingler

Diner Waitress

Rocky Carroll

Bad Ass Dude

Kate Hendrickson

Bar Waitress

Owen Bush

Vagrant

Jesse Woodrow

Roach Coach Clerk

Jamie Marsh

Barry

Michael McCleery

Recycling Owner

Terrence Howard

Jimmy

Sean Nepita

Freddie

Jody Wood

Brushfire Cop

Teddy Vincent

Lawyer Secretary

Mike Hagerty

Charlie the Proprietor

Jane Morris

Realtor

David Mandel

Evangelist

Alec Berg

Phone Guy No. 1

Jeff Schaffer

Phone Guy No. 2

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"Nick" (Alessandro Nivola) reckons he is going to inherit a decent sized chunk from his late father, but when he discovers that there is nothing left he needs cash. Coaxed into being a getaway driver in a robbery that will net him $10,000 he is soon apprehended by the no-nonsense victim who demands $15,000 back - or else! He and his girlfriend "Lissa" (Reese Witherspoon) now concoct a rather elaborate plan to extort the money from his wealthy, nice-but-dim friend "Bryce" (Josh Brolin) by framing him for rape. The plot has plenty of twists and turns, but neither the acting nor the really quite banal dialogue sustain much of a sense of either menace or interest. Nivola hasn't the skill as an actor to engage us in this faintly ridiculous wheeze, and Witherspoon offers little either as we head to an especially dumb denouement. It's not just the robbery that is botched...