Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Theatrical - Wide 1988-12-16

Cast Steve Martin Michael Caine Glenne Headly Anton Rodgers Barbara Harris
Directed by Frank Oz
Written by Dale Launer Stanley Shapiro Paul Henning

Box Office Gross: $42,000,000

Running Time: 110 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Orion Pictures

Genres: Comedy Crime

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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... See more 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.

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