At first, Best Laid Plans comes off like yet another all-flash-no-substance crime thriller but it's one of those rare films that end better than they start. Nick (Alessandro Nivola from Face/Off), broke and desperate to get out of his suffocating small town, agrees to take part in a drug heist. When his partners get caught, he has less than a week to come up with $15,000 or suffer the consequences. When his college buddy Brice (Josh Brolin--Flirting with Disaster) comes back to town, Nick and his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) hatch a plan to blackmail Brice... out of a rare collectable. Of course, things go wrong--which is where things get entertaining. The plot could use a few more twists to really crackle but the surprises it does have work and the ending is both clever and affecting. Along the way, the best scene features a drug dealer who quotes economic theory from the bible of capitalism, The Wealth of Nations. In the past few years, Reese Witherspoon has turned in superb performances in such varied movies as Freeway, Pleasantville and especially Election; Best Laid Plans doesn't make much use of her talent but she's always watchable. --Bret Fetzer [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Nick (Alessandro Nivola) has little money and even fewer prospects in his dead-end job in the one-horse town of Tropico. The only thing that drives him is his love for his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon). Teaming up with old college buddy Bryce (Josh Brolin), Nick is drawn into an elaborate scheme for a daring robbery. But a series of unexplainable mistakes and mysterious double-crosses leaves Nick with no-one left to trust. Language: English, German, Italian, Spanish
Nick (Alessandro Nivola) has little money and even fewer prospects in his dead-end job in the one-horse town of Tropico. The only thing that drives him is his love for his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon). Teaming up with old college buddy Bryce (Josh Brolin), Nick is drawn into an elaborate scheme for a daring robbery. But a series of unexplainable mistakes and mysterious double-crosses leaves Nick with no-one left to trust.
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