Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)
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| Ocean's Eleven | |
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| Image:Ocean's 11 (2001) poster.jpg IMDB Image:4of5.png 7.5/10 (56,005 votes) | |
| Directed by | Steven Soderbergh |
| Produced by | Jerry Weintraub |
| Written by | George C. Johnson Jack G. Russell Harry Brown Charles Lederer Ted Griffin |
| Starring | George Clooney Matt Damon Andy Garcia Brad Pitt Julia Roberts |
| Music by | David Holmes |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros |
| Release date(s) | December 5, 2001 |
| Running time | 116 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $85,000,000 |
| Followed by | Ocean's Twelve |
| IMDb profile | |
Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 remake of the 1960 Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven. The 2001 movie was directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts. In 2004, Soderbergh directed an original sequel, Ocean's Twelve. A second sequel is in the works, with the title Ocean's Thirteen, with a proposed release date of June 8, 2007.
It was a box-office and critical success.
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[edit] Cast
- George Clooney as Danny Ocean
- Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan
- Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell
- Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict
- Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean
- Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy
- Scott Caan as Turk Malloy
- Shaobo Qin as 'The Amazing' Yen
- Bernie Mac as Frank Catton
- Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr
- Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom
- Eddie Jemison as Livingston Dell
- Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff
[edit] Plot
Daniel Ocean (Clooney) recruits a team of specialists to rob three Las Vegas casinos: the Bellagio, The Mirage and the MGM Grand, all of which store their money in a central, high-tech bank vault beneath the Bellagio. The man who owns these casinos, Terry Benedict (Garcia), is dating Danny Ocean's former wife, Tess (Roberts). This will aid his determination to successfully pull off the robbery. With financing and backing from a wealthy ex-casino owner (who was bought out by Benedict), the robbers foil the elaborate security mechanisms to get to the vault with the casino's money (on the night of the title boxing match, ensuring there's more money in the vault), and escape by disguising themselves as a SWAT team.
[edit] Trivia
- Andy Garcia's character is partially based on Steve Wynn, the developer behind the Bellagio and the Mirage. One of Andy Garcia's reads, "If you should be picked up buying a $100,000 sports car in Newport Beach, I'm going to be supremely disappointed." This is a reference to the real-life 1994 kidnapping of Steve Wynn's daughter, Kevyn Wynn, where one of the kidnappers was caught in Newport Beach a week after the incident trying to buy a Ferrari with cash.
- Other than the lead character, none of the robbers in the remake share names with robbers in the original, although they do exhibit some of their personality quirks.
- The two fighters featured in the boxing match sequence are Wladimir Klitschko and Lennox Lewis.
- At one point, the actors considered for roles in the film included Mike Myers, Ewan McGregor, Sydney Pollack, Warren Beatty, Dennis Franz, Ralph Fiennes, and Michael Douglas. Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bruce Willis,and Alan Arkin were all originally cast in the parts that were eventually played by Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Andy Garcia and Carl Reiner.
- Five "teen idols" make cameos as themselves during the scene where Rusty teaches them how to play poker: Holly Marie Combs, Topher Grace, Joshua Jackson, Barry Watson, and Shane West.
- In the movie, a pinch is stolen, and used to disrupt power in Las Vegas, despite not actually being possible in real life.
- The concept of a casino needing to house money to cover every chip in play on its floor is false.
- In the DVD audio commentary Brad Pitt reveals that the wig he used for the doctor disguise was the rehearsal wig used in the Austin Powers series.
- In the DVD commentary Steven Soderbergh and Ted Griffin acknowledge a certain plot hole: How did the crew get the flyers of the hookers in the vault in the first place?
- Siegfried and Roy have a cameo appearance in the movie.
- Henry Silva and Angie Dickinson appear in brief cameos during the boxing sequence in the film. Silva played part of the crew and Dickinson a love interest in the original film.
- The song that plays as Danny is released from prison and continues to play over the main titles is titled "Rodney Yates" and is not featured on the soundtrack. It is however featured on David Holmes' (the score composer) 1997 album Let's Get Killed (which also featured the original version of "Gritty Shaker").
[edit] External links
- Ocean's Eleven (2001 film) at Yahoo! Movies
- Oceans Eleven Fan Page
- Ocean's Eleven at the Internet Movie Database
- Ocean's Eleven at Rotten Tomatoes
- Full script of 2001 re-make
| Films by Steven Soderbergh |
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| sex, lies, and videotape (1989) | Kafka (1991) | King of the Hill (1993) | Underneath (1995) | Gray's Anatomy (1996) | Schizopolis (1996) | Out of Sight (1998) | The Limey (1999) | Erin Brockovich (2000) | Traffic (2000) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Full Frontal (2002) | Solaris (2002) | Eros (Equilibrium) (2004) | Ocean's Twelve (2004) | Bubble (2006) | The Good German (2006) | Guerrilla (2007) | Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
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