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The Con (1998)

The Con poster
Directed by
Steven Schachter
Genre
romance, comedy, crime, drama, tv movie
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A con woman targets a man for his money and plans to marry him. But she starts to have real romantic feelings for him while carrying out the scheme.

romanticplayfullightheartedcharmingtenseslydeceptivewarm

What happens

The Con is a 1998 television movie starring William H. Macy and Rebecca De Mornay. De Mornay plays a con woman who develops romantic feelings for her mark (Macy) while scheming to marry him in order to get her hands on his fortune. It was directed by Steven Schachter and written by Macy and Schachter, who shared the 1999 Lone Star Film & Television Award for Best TV Teleplay. The film originally aired on the USA Network on March 4, 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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