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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)  link to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 3414

poster Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

IMDb Rating:
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7.4/10 (60690 votes)

Country: USA, 110 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, French

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Director(s): Frank Oz

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Wealthy native Brit Lawrence Jamieson, living in Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, earns most of his money through big cons on wealthy unsuspecting women. With the help of his associates, corrupt Police Inspector Andre, who provides him most of his intel, and his butler Arthur, he pulls scams such as pretending to be a foreign deposed Prince who needs money to finance a secret war to liberate his people. Beaumont-sur-Mer, and thus his world, is invaded by brash American Freddy Benson, another con man whose targets are also wealthy unsuspecting women. Lawrence believes Freddy is the Jackal, a con man whose true identity is unknown, but who is known to be working his way through Europe. While Lawrence works on thousands of dollars per scam, Freddy works only on tens or if he is lucky hundreds of dollars. Lawrence's efforts to get Freddy out of his territory are unsuccessful, so when Freddy figures out that Lawrence is a con man like he is, he decides to blackmail Lawrence to work ...

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Cast:

photo Steve Martin Steve Martin Freddy Benson
photo Michael Caine Michael Caine Lawrence Jamieson
photo Glenne Headly Glenne Headly Janet Colgate
photo Anton Rodgers Anton Rodgers Inspector Andre
photo Barbara Harris Barbara Harris Fanny Eubanks

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1