Maggie Rohrer makes a living scamming gullible men in Miami Beach, but she meets her match in Jack Shanks, a man who who turns the tables on her, and drags her into a far more elaborate plot... Read allMaggie Rohrer makes a living scamming gullible men in Miami Beach, but she meets her match in Jack Shanks, a man who who turns the tables on her, and drags her into a far more elaborate plot blackmailing a crime lord.Maggie Rohrer makes a living scamming gullible men in Miami Beach, but she meets her match in Jack Shanks, a man who who turns the tables on her, and drags her into a far more elaborate plot blackmailing a crime lord.
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- Artie De Sola
- (as Edgar Allen Poe IV)
Carmen López
- Waitress
- (as Carmen Lopez)
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A quite easy to watch tale of 2 thieves, with that love/hate type relationship between them. Chrisopher Walken stars and is very good as the silent rogue with a scam bigger than he's letting on.
I LOVED this movie. You can't buy it, rent it, or find it... but it's a keeper.
Wonderful chemistry between Braccho and Walken... and Ferrar....
Terrific non stop action and reactions.... loved it.
I've watched my pirated copy maybe 6 times in the last decade... each time showing it to someone who never heard of it.
Find this movie and watch it.
So many films are on TV over and over again - without any of the wit and style of this little film.
I didn't know it was made for TV... my copy is an 8 track I pirated years ago... I hope it lasts.
Wonderful chemistry between Braccho and Walken... and Ferrar....
Terrific non stop action and reactions.... loved it.
I've watched my pirated copy maybe 6 times in the last decade... each time showing it to someone who never heard of it.
Find this movie and watch it.
So many films are on TV over and over again - without any of the wit and style of this little film.
I didn't know it was made for TV... my copy is an 8 track I pirated years ago... I hope it lasts.
This film was a great TV-film. Great acting by Christopher Walken (as usual) and Miguel Ferrer. Lorraine Bracco was OK. This film had many surprises. It was entertaining all the time. Great film for a night at home.Great acting,great story and as I said many surprises make this movie to a very good one. If Christopher Walken would not have taken this role I think Chazz Palmintieri or perhaps Mel Gibson should have been good as Jack Shanks.
This old gem is still as good as I remember. Set in Miami and mostly Jamaica, it reminds me a lot of Miami Vice. I kept wanting this movie to go from the crime drama genre to romance genre. The two main actors (Lorraine Bracco and Christopher Walken) sizzle together when they aren't scamming or fighting for their lives. Watching these two is just as exciting as watching all the schemes hatch. I could not tell if they had ever done the deed in the movie or not, or if they stopped short of it. Having read the personal struggles that Lorraine Bracco was going through during filming I think she did a great job. She seemed like a natural.
The Amazon.com site tells me that this excellent film is no longer being distributed. Poor sales, I suppose, too bad. I picked up my copy at a for sale cheap table at a supermart.
It's always a pleasure to see Ms. Brocco, the psychiatrist from the HBO Sopranos at work. She is attractive and sexy, albeit a bit stoop shouldered.
It's always a pleasure to see Ms. Brocco, the psychiatrist from the HBO Sopranos at work. She is attractive and sexy, albeit a bit stoop shouldered.
Did you know
- TriviaDirector John Flynn, in an interview, said of the production: ''...it was just another assignment. Showtime's executives liked 'Nails' so much they immediately offered me 'Scam'. We shot most of it in Jamaica. It was a privilege to work with Chris Walken. What a fine actor he is. Miguel Ferrer and Martin Donovan are also first-rate talents, but Lorraine Bracco was clinically depressed at the time, having trouble with her boyfriend Edward James Olmos and her ex-husband Harvey Keitel. So Lorraine wasn't at the top of her game in 'Scam'.''
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