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The Rat Pack Director: Rob Cohen Cast: Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus MacFadyen

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  • DVD Release Date: 12/22/1998
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 3,104

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Interactive menus; Crew biographies; Multiple language and subtitle tracks; Scene selections

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Side #1
0. Chapters
1. "Live Until I Die" [6:18]
2. The Guys [7:19]
3. Palm Springs Playboys [10:14]
4. "Back Jack" [5:18]
5. The Good Life [6:18]
6. Favors [15:34]
7. The Pack At Play [9:08]
8. "Ain't Love A Kick" [10:53]
9. Political Poison [10:42]
10. "Bobby Made Top Cop" [10:08]
11. The Message Boy [9:23]
12. Presidential Visits [10:28]
13. "And One More For The Road" [7:30]

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Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin (Joe Mantegna), and Sammy Davis Jr. (Don Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers, gangsters, actors, and politicans (sometimes brushing shoulders in the same rooms). The film also explores Sinatra's relationship with John F. Kennedy (William Peterson). Deciding to support Kennedy, Sinatra patches up his feud with Peter Lawford (Angus Macfadyen), since Lawford's wife, Pat (Phyllis Lyons) is JFK's sister -- and a Sinatra-Kennedy friendship soon follows. However, when Joe Kennedy (Dan O'Herlihy) decides Sinatra's nightclub, mob and commie connections are a no-no for JFK, the patriarch's interference angers Sinatra. Meanwhile, Sammy Davis Jr. enters into an interracial liaison with May Britt (Megan Dodds), and the dynamics of the situation are visualized in an imaginative musical fantasy sequence in which Davis sees himself singing and dancing for an unresponsive line of white supremacists. Broadway's Savion Glover stepped in with the film's choreography. Substitute singers featured the voice of Michael Dees for Sinatra and Mantegna duplicating Dino. Also covered here are the events that led to the filming of Ocean's Eleven (1960). For an actual Rat Pack stage performance, see The Rat Pack Captured (1965). Filmed in LA, the TV movie premiered August 22, 1998 on HBO. Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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August 11, 2000: Watching this made for HBO production makes you long for the days when the Vegas Strip wasn't gridlocked at 11AM Sunday morning. Before ''The Mirage'' and ''Mandalay Bay'' were even a throught, Frank, Dean, Sammy and crew made the the Land of Coin & Sand the place to be. Incredible performance by Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr. Accurate images and moods.