Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Name: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Released: 1988
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris

• Movies, Comedy, Crime

• 110 min

7.0

Nice guys finish last. Meet the winners.

Directed by: Frank Oz
Casting: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagen Fay, Frances Conroy, Nicole Calfan, Aïna Walle, Cheryl Pay, Nathalie Auffret, Lolly Susi, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Hepburn Graham, Xavier Maly, André Penvern, Louis Zorich, Georges Gerrard Baffos, Valerie Beaufils
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1988-12-14
Status: Released

Tags: bet, luxury, casino, competition, southern france, wheelchair, seduction, con man, swindler, remake, french riviera, money, wager, heiress, mentor protégé relationship, riviera, conman, conmen

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of ,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.