The Opportunists (2000)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Aug 25, 2000
Running Time: 89 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Myles Connell
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Set in Sunnyside, Queens, the story of Victor Kelly, a former gangster, who really wants to be a responsible man, earn an honest living, and in so doing, redeem himself for the trouble that his criminal past has brought down on his small fractured family. But Vic's life is turned upside down when a suspicious and uninvited man--declaring himself to be a relative from Ireland--shows up and seduces him back into a life of crime. The family man soon finds himself risking everything for a chance to make one last score.
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It's Christopher Walken -- and he's not the villain!

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Ex-con Victor Kelly (Walken) is now an honest man in Queens, making meager money as an auto mechanic and trying to hold together relationships with his daughter (Vera Farmiga) and elderly aunt (Anne Pitoniak). But when a young man named Michael (Peter McDonald) arrives and claims to be a cousin from Ireland, Vic takes him in, not realizing that Michael is here to pull Vic (who is a legend back at the motherland) into one last heist.… Continued

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December 11, 2000
The Opportunits is dominated by the weird fascination Christopher Walken exerts as a New York safecracker trying to go straight, but it also gives Cyndi Lauper - where's she been? -- a chance to show acting chops maybe you didn't know she had. Perhaps you're still holding Vibes against her. That vile 1988 comedy certainly stalled the singer's film career. Lauper's role isn't much in this modestly made and modestly charming caper flick from writer-director Myles Connell. She plays Sally, a bar… Continued
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Sally Mahon
Miriam Kelly
Pat Duffy
Jesus Del Toro
Mort Stein
Aunt Diedre
Ted Walikaki
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