Comedy · Drama
Simpatico
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
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Top Cast
Nick Nolte
Vincent Webb
Jeff Bridges
Lyle Carter
Sharon Stone
Rosie
Catherine Keener
Cecilia
Albert Finney
Simms
Shawn Hatosy
Young Vinnie
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Young Rosie
Liam Waite
Young Carter
Directed by
Matthew Warchus
Production
Fine Line Features
Canal+Reviews
John Chard
6/107/6/2019
Infertiile Neo-Noir? Simpatico is directed by Matthew Warchus and Warchus co-adapts the screenplay with David Nicholls from the play written by Sam Shepard. It stars Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catharine Keener and Albert Finney. Music is by Stewart Copeland and cinematography is by John Toll. Three young confidence tricksters have orchestrated a horse racing scam tat is making them big money. However, when the scam is unearthed by a top official they set him up for blackmail and make off into the sun. Twenty years later the three of them are brought together by circumstance and the time of emotional reckoning… It was met with disdain by critics and film goers alike, and even now some 20 years after it was first released it holds below average ratings on the main interne
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