Movies
TV Shows
People
15/09/1999 Comedy, Drama 1h 46m
49
User score

Overview

As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?

  1. Matthew Warchus

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Nick Nolte

    Vincent Webb

  2. Jeff Bridges

    Lyle Carter

  3. Sharon Stone

    Rosie

  4. Catherine Keener

    Cecilia

  5. Albert Finney

    Simms

  6. Shawn Hatosy

    Young Vinnie

  7. Kimberly Williams-Paisley

    Young Rosie

  8. Liam Waite

    Young Carter

  9. Ken Strunk

    Charlie

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-07-06
Infertiile Neo-Noir?

Simpatico is directed by Matthew Warchus and Warchus co-adapts the screenplay with David Nicholls from the play written by Sam Shepard. It stars Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catharine Keener and Albert Finney. Music is by Stewart Copeland and cinematography is by John Toll.

Three young confidence tricksters have orchestrated a horse racing scam tat is making them big money. However, when the scam is unearthed by a top official they set him up for blackmail and make off into the sun. Twenty years later the three of them are brought together by circumstance ...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. Landline61%
  2. Family Weekend63%
  3. Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play75%
  4. Hooking Up63%
  5. The Beanie Bubble64%
  6. Thick as Thieves60%
  7. Small Apartments58%
  8. Mickybo and Me70%
  9. ...All the Marbles61%
  10. Class Act61%
  11. SubUrbia61%
  12. CQ59%
  13. Somewhere in Queens63%
  14. Almost Friends63%
  15. Daddy Longlegs66%
  16. In the Soup67%
  17. Kabluey60%
  18. Class59%
  19. Closer to the Moon65%
  20. Fun with Dick and Jane66%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$929,606.00

Keywords