Movie #: Title:   Year: 2003         IMDB mediatype
Genre: Director:     IMDB   Rating:  PG-13  Box Set? box set?

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0988 Matchstick Men.mp41161358

Synopsis

Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. Roy's private life is not as successful as his career. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter. With his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she's developing a fascination with Daddy's questionable career.  

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Future filmmakers (and probably some current ones) could learn a lot from the 72-minute "Tricks of the Trade," which follows director Ridley Scott from pre-production through test screenings. The viewer is a fly on the wall as Scott partakes in location meetings, costume fittings, music-scoring sessions, and the like; everyone is as at ease as the director with a camera crew follows their every move. "Tricks" has all the usual DVD extras--interview segments, deleted scenes, ego-massaging--but documentary filmmaker Charles de Lauzirika is so smart in incorporating these elements, his final result is one of most deft--and most entertaining--DVD extras in the format's young history. --Doug Thomas