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The Grifters is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stephen Frears released in USA on 14 september 1990 with John Cusack
The Grifters (1990)
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Add to a movie listThe Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and stars John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening. The screenplay was written by Donald E. Westlake, based on Jim Thompson's pulp novel of the same name.
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Lilly Dillon (Huston) is a veteran con artist. She works for a bookmaker, Bobo Justus, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years. She finds him in pain and bleeding internally after one of his victims caught him pulling a petty scam and punched him in the stomach. When medical assistance finally comes, Lilly confronts the doctor, threatening to have him killed if her son dies.Actors
John Cusack
(Roy Dillon)
Anjelica Huston
(Lilly Dillon)
Annette Bening
(Myra Langtry)
Pat Hingle
(Bobo Justus)
J. T. Walsh
(Cole)
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