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Release Date: Jan 17, 2003
Running Time: 89 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Best friends Charlie Carbone and Louis Fucci are both struggling to get ahead in life--but their approaches couldn't be more different. Louis is an optimist as well as a magnet for bad luck. Ever since he saved Charlie's life 20 years ago, Louis has embroiled them in a series of shady get-rich schemes, which has only compounded Charlie's reputation as the ultimate loser in the eyes of his intimidating stepfather, mob boss Sal Maggio. More skeptical and low profile than Louis, Charlie just wants to play by the rules, meet the right girl and make a success of his new business, which is tough with Sal skimming all the profits. But when Louis recruits Charlie to help him escort a truckload of stolen televisions across town, they inadvertently lead police straight to Sal's warehouse. Just when it looms like the guys might end up sleeping with the fishes, Sal gives them one last chance at redemption. All they have to do is deliver $50,000 cash to one of Sal's associates in the Australian Outback. But a kangaroo with a plan of his own gets a hold of the cash, forcing Charlie and Louis to track him across the outback before Sal's henchmen send them "down under" permanently.
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Charlie Carbone
Louis Booker
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Sal Maggio
Mr Smith
Mr Jimmy
Anna Carbone
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January 24, 2003
The 'Roo doesn't talk, except in a dream sequence, but Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson speak smarmy idiocies written (in part) by Elizabeth Hurley impregnator Steve Bing. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor), this Aussie-set comic fiasco also topped the box-office charts. I'm dying here. PETER TRAVERS
(January 24, 2003)
When two friends from Brooklyn are forced to deliver mob money to Australia, they lose the cash when a wild kangaroo inadvertently takes off with it into the Outback. Unfortunately, the chase is on. Story The only way to adequately convey how insanely stupid Kangaroo Jack is is to simply describe it. Hairdresser Charlie Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) knows two things: his stepfather Sal (Christopher Walken) is a mob boss and his best friend Louis (Anthony Anderson) will find a way to get them both in
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