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Best Laid Plans Director: Mike Barker Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Father Terrance Sweeney, Rebecca Klingler, Reese Witherspoon

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  • DVD Release Date: 12/01/2009
  • Original Release: 1999
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 30,701

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Closed Caption; Original theatrical trailer; 8 deleted scenes; Alternate ending; Audio commentary with director Mike Barker; Featurette; Cast and crew bios

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Disc #1 -- Best Laid Plans
1. Main Titles [:25]
2. A Problem With Bryce [2:54]
3. Sixteen! [:42]
4. A Prior History [7:38]
5. A Father's Debts [2:36]
6. Tropico Recycling [2:46]
7. Payback Demands [2:48]
8. Welcome to Tropico [3:13]
9. Charlie's Trash & Treasures [4:22]
10. Planning a Double-Cross [5:42]
11. Back at the Beginning [2:18]
12. Why Did You Call Me? [5:20]
13. You're Not Coming [1:49]
14. Bad Timing [4:05]
15. A Dead Giveaway [2:27]
16. Honor Among Friends [2:25]
17. End Titles [2:56]

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Absolutely nobody is who he or she seems in this stylish thriller about a guy who wants to get out of his fly-speck hometown, the girlfriend who wants to help him, and the successful friend who just might make it possible. When Bryce (Josh Brolin) returns to his tiny hometown of Tropico, NV, he finds pal Nick (Alessandro Nivola) still living there unhappily. One night the pair meets a beautiful blonde at the bar and eventually Bryce takes her back to the house where he's staying. When the girl, Lissa (Reese Witherspoon), reveals that she's under age and threatens to turn Bryce in for statutory rape, he panics, ties her up in the basement, and puts in an anguished call to Nick. Little does Bryce realize, however, that Lissa is actually Nick's very grown-up girlfriend, and that the two lovers have decided Bryce and the ritzy house where he's staying will play a major role in their bid to leave behind dead-end Tropico forever. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

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Best Laid Plansby Anonymous

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September 07, 2007: Screenwriter Ted Griffin ('Ocean's Eleven', 'Matchstick Men', 'Rumor Has It', etc) has provided a story for this little film that is successful on many levels: it is a suspenseful mystery, an intelligent look at the Now Generation's unstable approach to life as hopefully handed to them on their parents' goodwill, a mind twister full of surprises, and most of all a metaphor for where we now stand as a consumer world contained in disposable vials. Working with director Mike Barker's keen sense of timing and comic relief, a fine young cast of notable actors drives this story of desperate turns of fate to an unsuspected ending. The trip is worth your attention. The nowhere/somewhere town setting is Tropico, a dusty boring little place whose reason for existing is a massive recycling plant for discarded containers - just the right setting for a story about little town people who have discarded their dreams. Nick (Alessandro Nivola) works in the recycling plant, basing his hopes for something better on the death of his father and the Will through which he plans to gain a comfortable inheritance. But the Life Insurance policy is negated after an autopsy report reveals a 'preexisting condition' and the remaining assets of his father are owed to the IRS. Nick is broke and in his low state of esteem agrees to be a driver for a drug heist to make enough money to leave boring Tropico. The heist is a bust and Nick is threatened by the owner of the drug stash that he must come up with a large sum of money or else. Nick turns to his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) who also wants to leave Tropico and reluctantly agrees to a complex scam against Nick's old college chum Bryce (Josh Brolin). When that scam falls apart there are even more surprises that keep the story bubbling until the unsuspected conclusion. Nivola is outstanding in this tricky role and Witherspoon and Brolin are convincing. Of note there is a very brief role for newcomer Terrence Howard - the film was made in 1999 before some of these actors gained notoriety in the Oscars. Though not entirely without flaws, this fascinating study of recyclable people enmeshed in their own wayward schemes is an entertaining and stimulating tour de force for all involved. It is well worth a second look! Grady Harp

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July 17, 2003: Wow! This movie was so surprisingly good. It had a good plot and many twists. You should rent this movie!

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