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Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassell
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Crew |
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Bobby (Dreyfus) is a career wise guy whose crew is a group of guys he's known since childhood. Bats (Reynolds), The Brick (Hedaya) and The Mouth (Cassell) each have their own quirks and specialty they bring to the crew. After explaining in voice over the origins of the group, Bobby brings us to present day Miami, where the New Jersey crew is rotting on the balcony of a two-bit retirement hotel. Although older, the men still are fairly much the same and hating "retirement." There's nothing much left to live for until the rent goes up, and then they hatch a scheme to artificially get the rent lower -- they get a dead John Doe from the morgue where The Brick now works and pump the cadaver full of lead.
Voila, the fear over the possibility of organized crime in the area lowers the rent. With the success of that caper, the crew is back in the wise guy business, feeling young again, and soon being asked to bump off a stripper's stepmother. Blackmailed actually, because it turns out Mouth talks too much postccoitus (he's been seeing the stripper -- played to the tee by Jennifer Tilly) including about this incident. When it's discovered the John Doe is the father of a notorious drug cartel head, they have to keep her quiet, and try to kill her stepmother.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Crew |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 60's-90's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- another color
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Miami
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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