Burt Reynolds & Richard Dreyfus - wedding South Beach?
So far just filming their new blockbuster titled "The Crew".
Reynolds & Dreyfus- great production, amazing talents, perfect scenario.
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Beautiful stripper Ferris (Jennifer Tilly, left) and (continued left to right) fossilized former gangsters Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), and Tony "The Mouth" Donato (Seymour Cassel) hatch a seemingly simple scheme to save their retirement residence. Comedy and chaos collide when the elderly Good Fellas' caper goes awry and inadvertently entangles a paranoid drug lord who is convinced he's about to be rubbed out by a mysterious gangland rival
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Left to right: Former wise guys Mike "The Brick" Donatelli (Dan Hedaya), Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), and Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss) hatch a scheme to keep from being evicted from their South Beach, Miami, retirement residence hotel.
Greg'sPreview Thoughts:
This movie has been around for a few years, previously
as a project for Dean Parisot, who went on to direct Galaxy
Quest instead. This movie does, of course, tie
into the sort of mob humor that drove Analyze
This and the HBO series The Sopranos to
be hits, which is to say that mobsters are such familiar
stereotypes that there's still plenty of gold in them
there jokes. (Don't know if that attempt at a joke has
more of a prospector or a midwestern accents; oops).
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Well, the first image from the movie is up (see above),
and it's pretty much what you'd expect. It's a bit grainy,
but you can see that Burt looks like Burt, Dan looks like
Dan, and Richard Dreyfuss looks like well, the older Dreyfuss
we've seen in movies like Lanksy and the end of
Mr. Holland's Opus.
ReleaseDate:
August 25, 2000
Distributor:
Touchstone Pictures
Cast:
Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfuss, Seymour Cassel, Dan Hedaya,
Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeremy Piven, Jennifer Tilly, Lorri
Bagley, Jay Cannistraci, Lainie Kazan, Miguel Sandoval
Director:
Michael
Dinner (This marks the return to feature films for the
director of the 1980's comedies Heaven Help Us,
Hot to Trot, and Off Beat)
Screenwriter:
Barry
Fanaro (cowriter of Kingpin)
Premise:
There's no place like home -- even when it's the ratty Raj Mahal senior citizen residence hotel in yuppie-haven South Beach, Miami. While sexy models cavort on the white sands posing for haute couture fashion magazine covers, four fossilized former wiseguys: Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), Mike "The Brick" Donatelli (Dan Hedaya) and Tony "The Mouth" Donato (Seymour Cassel), face eviction from the semi-squalor of the Raj on this otherwise posh strip of shore. Management's plans for renovations of the building, to force higher rents and attract a classier clientele, are squeezing the geezers out. Although in the sunset of their years, it's not exactly sundown, and they hatch a seemingly simple scheme to save their retirement residence. Comedy and chaos collide when the elderly GoodFellas' caper goes awry and inadvertently entangles a paranoid drug lord who is convinced he's about to be rubbed out by a mysterious gangland rival.
Filming:
Production
on this movie took place in Miami during the late summer
of 1999, starting on July 12th and wrapping up in early
September.
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