Title: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Languages: English
Genres: Comedy, Crime,
Runtime: 1:50:00 Hour
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly
Directors: Frank Oz
MPA Rating: PG
Rating: 7.1 (1052 Votes)
TomatoMeter: 89 %
Audiance Score: 84 %
Critics Consensus: A buoyant, clever update of the conman flick Bedtime Story, with plenty of comedic jousting resulting from a winning chemistry between Michael Caine and Steve Martin.
Year: 1988
Summary: Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.