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09/21/05
Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 55 Fresh: 13 Rotten:42 Average Rating: 4.3/10
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Cliched and endlessly self-referential, Who Is Cletis Tout? doesn't add anything original to the crime genre.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: While in prison, Trevor Finch (Christian Slater), an ex-convict specializing in identification falsification, meets a magician and jewel thief, Micah (Richard Dreyfuss). Together, they bust out and take on new identities, planning to dig up a pile of diamonds that Micah buried under a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Allen, Portia De Rossi, RuPaul
Director: Chris Ver Wiel
Screenwriter: Chris Ver Wiel
Producer: Matthew Grimaldi, Daniel Grodnik, Robert Snukel
Composer: Randy Edelman
Screenwriter: Chris Ver Wiel
Producer: Matthew Grimaldi, Daniel Grodnik, Robert Snukel
Composer: Randy Edelman
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07/21/05
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11/06/02
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10/21/02
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10/02/02
There's a sweetness to it that's disarming and diverting -- mostly thanks to performances of Slater, Richard Dreyfuss as his partner in crime, and Portia Di Rossi as Dreyfuss' daughter.
08/19/02
The whole mildly pleasant outing -- the R rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air, but on the inspired performance of Tim Allen.
08/16/02
If you love movies, it's hard not to like Who Is Cletis Tout? or at least smile through it.
08/16/02
Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone.
08/16/02
The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago, and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing.
08/09/02
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08/09/02
Why sit through a crummy, wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies, when you could just rent those movies instead, let alone seek out a respectable new one?
08/08/02
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