Out of Sight(1998)
Universal Pictures Jun 26, 1998
A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.
Release Details
Original Release | Jun 26, 1998 | Wide
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$12,020,435
$37,562,568
$40,183,398
$77,745,966
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Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: DTS-Stereo,DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English,Spanish
Summaries
Plot Summary
- A career bank robber (& a smooth operator, who only got caught because his getaway car wouldn't start), Jack Foley (George Clooney), and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), are forced to share a car trunk during his escape from a Florida prison. Sisco was at the prison meeting one of her clients, when Jack joined the escape attempt and Sisco got caught up in it. Jack escaped from a tunnel dug by 2 other inmates and Sisco saw him emerge from the tunnel and tried to stop him. Jack takes Sisco's gun and forces her into the trunk of Buddy's car, who at the prison to pick up Jack.After he completes his getaway, Foley is chased by Sisco while he and his friends-right-hand man Buddy Bragg (Ving Rhames) and unreliable associate Glenn Michaels (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 Richard Ripley (Albert Brooks), who bragged to them in prison years before about a cache of uncut diamonds hidden in his home. Ripley worked on Wall Street and ripped off many of his clients. He was imprisoned for 3 years and fined $ 50 M. Ripley spoke to Glenn when they were in prison together 2 years ago and said that he has $5 M in uncut diamonds in his house.Sisco escapes by convincing Glenn to drive her away and ditch Buddy and Jack. In return she will not classify Glenn as an accessory to Jack's prison escape. Glenn is taken in by Sisco's sweet talk, but he is a terrible driver and ends up crashing the car. Sisco bangs her head on one of the car's windows and is knocked unconscious. Glenn flees the scene.Sisco has a dream where she tracks down Foley, but instead of arresting him, they have sex. Sisco wakes up in a hospital, where her FBI colleague Daniel Burdon (Wendell B. Harris Jr.) questions her on why she didn't shoot Jack and Buddy when she had the chance (twice, once while Jack was escaping the tunnel and the other when she was in the trunk and had the Sig in her hands). Sisco refuses to answer and pushes back at the inexperienced Burdon for trying to lay the blame for the incident on her. Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) is Sisco's partner and is on the task force to apprehend Jack and Buddy, but Burdon keeps Sisco out.After she leaves the hospital, Sisco investigates on her own and contacts Adele (Catherine Keener), who is Jack's girlfriend (and was the last person Jack called before his escape. Adele was the one who arranged Buddy to pick up Jack during his escape). Chino (Luis Guzmán), one of the inmates who escaped before Jack, and curious about Adele's past job as a magician's assistant, reaches Adele's and Sisco arrests him. She places a call to Burdon asking if she can be on the Foley task force if she brings Chino in. Burdon is forced to accept Sisco on the task force, but he assigns her menial tasks, like guarding the elevator, when the force goes to the hotel where Jack and Buddy have been reportedly staying after their escape. Karen sees Buddy and Jack in the elevator, leaving right before their room is raided. Sisco doesn't inform Burdon, allowing them to escape.Glenn spills the diamond plot to vicious criminal Maurice Miller (Don Cheadle), who also did time with Jack and Ripley. Maurice then plans to rob Ripley's mansion with his own crew, including Kenneth (Isaiah Washington) and White Boy Bob (Keith Loneker). Before Maurice will allow Glenn to join them in their robbery of Ripley, Glenn has to join them in a home invasion of one of Maurice's enemies. The invasion is horrific -- though not too graphically depicted onscreen -- and Glenn is left extremely shaken with blood on his clothes.Jack sees Maurice with Glenn, outside Ripley's mansion and decides to intervene. Maurice and Foley agree to team up on the job and split the earnings. Sisco tracks Glenn to his meeting with Maurice in Detroit. Maurice had arranged a meeting to plan the heist with Jack, Buddy, Glenn and his guys at a boxing fight venue. Buddy knew Sisco was tracking Glenn and was sure that all of them will get picked up at the night of the fight.It is revealed that Jack protected Ripley in prison from being sexually assaulted and other things. In exchange, Ripley offered Jack a job in his company when he got out. When Jack did get out (the time before last), he went to Ripley, only to find that he was offered a job of a security guard. This angered Jack and he vows revenge against Ripley. Immediately after this meeting, Jack goes to rob another bank, does so without using any weapons and nearly succeeds when he's caught and lands back into prison.Before the robbery, a romantic interlude between Foley and Sisco takes place in a Detroit hotel. The question of whether she is really pursuing Foley to arrest him or for love ends in a showdown during the robbery at Ripley's home and adds to "the fun" Foley claims they are having.Glenn gets cold feet (after seeing how violent Maurice is and that Maurice had taken full control of the heist from Glenn) and is met in the car Maurice forcefully took from him by Sisco. She allows him to flee. Shortly thereafter Jack and Buddy reach the fight venue to sync up with Maurice and his crew.At Ripley's house, Maurice and his crew pose as a maintenance crew and gain entry when Ripley's housekeeper and lover, Midge (Nancy Allen) answers the door. She takes them to the safe in Ripley's bedroom closet and tells them the combination when the try to shoot it open and fail. Inside they only find Ripley's toupees. Maurice and his crew also plan to loot Ripley's other belongings like his suits and the steaks and other food from his freezer.White Boy Bob is sent to find Foley and sees him at the top of the main staircase. As he jogs up the stairs to Foley, he trips and accidentally shoots and kills himself. Foley shoots and kills Kenneth as he attempts to sexually assault Midge. Midge was supposed to be alone in the house, but Jack finds Ripley hiding inside the house and found the diamonds in his fish tank. Buddy and Jack were about to leave with the diamonds, but Jack knew that Maurice and his crew would rape the maid and then kill her and Ripley. Jack goes back into the house and tells Buddy to leave.Sisco, having followed them to Ripley's home, shoots and kills Maurice, stops Foley after he implores her to kill him, telling her to "pretend [he's] someone else". She shoots him in the leg and arrests him. Buddy slips away with some of Ripley's diamonds.The next morning, Foley is loaded aboard a van to be returned to prison in Florida. Another detainee, Hejira Henry (a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson), boards the van and mentions to Foley that he has escaped from prison nine previous times. He says he was supposed to leave the night before but was given to Sisco. When he ponders why she'd put him in the van with Foley, Jack remarks "Maybe she thought we'd have a lot to talk about." Sisco smiles as the van leaves for Florida.
Storyline
- A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in. — <97fa043@dvc.edu>
