I watched The Grifters last night before bed. I have to say, while it started off confusing, and began to look very promising, it ended up sucking.
From IMDB:
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.
When con artist Roy Dillon (Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy’s girlfriend, Myra (Bening), the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don’t get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artists, which leads to a bloody climax.
That “bloody climax” is Lily (the mother) killing Myra (the girlfriend) and later Roy (the son). The final scene of the movie is Lily hitting Roy with a suitcase full of his money (which she’s show up to steal), causing the glass in his hand to shatter and rip open his neck. She cries over the body, sweeps up some of the wet, bloody money (mixed with shards of broken glass) and driving off through LA.
Worst. Movie. Evar.
The Grifters… Sucked!
I watched The Grifters last night before bed. I have to say, while it started off confusing, and began to look very promising, it ended up sucking.
From IMDB:
That “bloody climax” is Lily (the mother) killing Myra (the girlfriend) and later Roy (the son). The final scene of the movie is Lily hitting Roy with a suitcase full of his money (which she’s show up to steal), causing the glass in his hand to shatter and rip open his neck. She cries over the body, sweeps up some of the wet, bloody money (mixed with shards of broken glass) and driving off through LA.
Worst. Movie. Evar.