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Writer (WGA):
E. Max Frye (written by)
Release Date:
5 March 1993 (USA) more
Tagline:
Misunderstood. Misplaced. Mismatched.
Plot:
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Not as bad as it was made out to be. more (22 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Andrew Sterling |
 | Michael Lerner | ... | Phil Gillman |
 | Margaret Colin | ... | Judy Gillman |
 | Nicolas Cage | ... | Amos Odell |
 | Dabney Coleman | ... | Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver |
 | Brad Dourif | ... | Officer Donnie Donaldson |
 | Chelcie Ross | ... | Deputy Earl |
| I.M. Hobson | ... | Waldo Lake |
| Jeff Blumenkrantz | ... | Ernie the Cameraman |
 | Todd Weeks | ... | Deputy Stan |
 | Jordan Lund | ... | Deputy Riley |
 | Jodi Long | ... | Wendy Wong |
| Michael Burgess | ... | Black Reporter |
| Leonor Anthony | ... | Hispanic Reporter |
| Walter Raymond | ... | Anchorman |
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Runtime:
96 min | Germany:92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M | South Korea:12 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (Certificate #32296) | Finland:K-12 (1994) (VHS) | Finland:S (2001) (DVD) | Germany:12 (video premiere) | Iceland:L | Italy:T | Singapore:PG | Spain:13
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Continuity: Lenses in the Chief of Police's glasses during his interview after escaping from the house. more
Quotes:
Andrew Sterling: What comes around, goes around. more
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References Dog Day Afternoon (1975) more
Soundtrack:
Suburbian Nightmare more
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Clumsily written, the quasi-buddy comedy of mistaken identity stars Samuel L. Jackson as a racist writer on a posh Massachusetts island who is mistaken for being a burglar. After dodging a shower of police gunfire at his house everyone finds out that he is the person living there. Rather than face internal affairs, the cops let a car thief (Nicholas Cage) out of jail to go in the home with a shotgun and act as the `burglar'. (So the `break-in' looks fatal, for obvious reasons.)
Michael Lerner was hilarious as the hypocritical former lawyer of the Chicago 7. Giancarlo Esposito was realistic as the Louis Farrakhan-like fundamentalist. If the police weren't so unfunny (and other parts were written more cannily) it all would have been much better.