Reindeer Games (2000)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Genre

drama film, action film, heist film, Christmas film, crime thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 738 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ex-convict impersonates his dead cellmate and gets pulled into a casino heist in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Things go wrong when the cellmate's girlfriend and her dangerous brother get involved.

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What happens

Reindeer Games (also released under the title Deception) is a 2000 American action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Ehren Kruger, and starring Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise and Charlize Theron. The plot centers on an ex-convict (Affleck) who assumes his deceased cellmate's identity and becomes entangled in a heist targeting a casino in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Produced by Dimension Films and released theatrically by Miramax Films on February 25, 2000, the film received negative reviews from critics and emerged as a box-office bomb, grossing $32.2 million worldwide against a $42 million budget. This was Frankenheimer's final feature before his death in 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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