Out of Sight
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Romantic comedy, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Thriller, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Indie, Romance Film, Action, Heist, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1998
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Zahn, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Albert Brooks, Isaiah Washington, Dennis Farina, Michael Keaton, Luis Guzmán, Scott Allen, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Paul Soileau, Paul Calderon, James R. Black, Catherine Keener, Nancy Allen, Samuel L. Jackson
Out of Sight is a 1998 American crime film. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was released on June 26, 1998. It was nominated for two Academy Awards (adapted screenplay and editing). It won the Edgar Award for best screenplay and the National Society of Film Critics awards for best film, screenplay, and director. It led to a spinoff TV series, Karen Sisco.
A career bank robber, Jack Foley (George Clooney), and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), are forced to share her car trunk during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Sisco chases Foley while he and his friends—his right-hand man, Buddy (Ving Rhames), and their unreliable associate, Glenn (Steve Zahn)—work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley (Albert Brooks), who foolishly bragged to them years before about a cache of uncut diamonds hidden in his home.
A vicious criminal named Maurice Miller (Don Cheadle) who also spent time in
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