Rating of
2/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 03/06/19
Based off a Donald Westlake novel, this plodding crime drama ostensibly about different grifters playing the next big con. In reality, it's much more of a sordid family drama about a mother (Huston) and her dysfunctional relationship with her grown son (Cusack)..The crime element is more of a side-plot. Hooray. Oh and there's some creepy incestuous subtext thrown in too. Goody. It's undeniably well made and the acting is pretty good. Angelica Huston especially as this broken, desperate, conniving woman.
