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Years ago, Jack Carter left his Seattle home to become a Las Vegas mob casino financial enforcer. He returns for the funeral of his brother Richard ‘Richie’ after a car crash during a storm, atypical of the careful house-father. Talking to the widow, daughter Doreen and enigmatic Geraldine, Jack suspects it was murder.
Cliff Brumby, whose club Richie ran, is financially linked to porn and prostitution baron Cyrus Paice, who claims to be just a front-man for ITC tycoon Jeremy Kinnear. Someone hired goon Thorpey to make Jack return to Las Vegas. Jack’s partner Con McCarty is restless, apparently about their boss Les Fletcher whose wife had an affair with Jack. Someone breaks into Richie’s home, looking for a crucial CD.
Get Carter is a 2000 American thriller film, a remake of the classic Michael Caine 1971 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Kay, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, John C. McGinley, Michael Caine and Rhona Mitra.
The film was released in the United States on October 6, 2000 and was released by Warner Bros., which had recently acquired the distribution rights via Turner Entertainment to the original. Critical reaction was negative. Nor did it do well at the box office, with worldwide takings of approximately $19 million, less than the production budget of nearly $64 million.
About the Story
Mob enforcer Jack Carter returns home to Seattle when he learns that his brother, Ritchie, has been killed in a drunk driving accident. While he starts investigating Ritchie’s death, his mob partner in Las Vegas, Con McCarty, covers for him with the mob boss, Fletcher. It also comes out that Carter has been having an affair with Fletcher’s girlfriend, Audrey.
At his brother’s funeral, Jack meets his niece, Doreen, and has a strained and emotional conversation with his brother’s widow. He also speaks with Eddie, a friend and coworker of Ritchie’s, and he also notices a beautiful woman, Geraldine, who has come to pay her respects. She is evasive and cryptic about how she knew Ritchie and what the extent of their relationship was.
At the wake, Jack continues to question mourners and well-wishers about what happened to his brother, which draws the ire of Ritchie’s widow. He also talks to Doreen while they sit smoking on the front stoop and she states that Ritchie rarely drank and would never have driven while intoxicated. Earlier at the funeral, Eddie also stated that Ritchie rarely drank and that he was most certainly not involved in illicit activities.
His first stop in his investigation is with loan shark Cliff Brumby, the owner of the club that Ritchie managed. However, Brumby claims that he does not believe Jack’s allegations of foul play, but does tell him that Ritchie was having an affair with Geraldine, an associate of local boss Cyrus Paice.
Jack questions Paice, though he is unable to get any useful information from him. Jack follows Paice, who unknowingly leads him to Jeremy Kinnear, a wealthy computer mogul who had hired Cyrus to discreetly procure beautiful women for him and the parties he throws, so as to better preserve his “professional” and squeaky-clean image.
However, Cyrus now manipulates and controls Kinnear and forces him to run Cyrus’s pornographic websites, blackmailing him with the understanding that if the general public were to become aware of Kinnear’s proclivities it would irrevocably damage his public persona. Although Carter cannot get any straight answers, he continues to pursue the truth, and he carefully examines the surveillance tapes from Brumby’s club, looking for any sort of clue.
Get Carter (2000)
Directed by: Stephen Kay
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, Michael Caine, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, Lauren Lee Smith, Gretchen Mol
Screenplay by: David McKenna
Production Design by: Charles Wood
Cinematography by: Mauro Fiore
Film Editing by: Jerry Greenberg
Costume Design by: Julie Weiss
Set Decoration by: Elizabeth Wilcox
Art Direction by: Helen Jarvis
Music by: yler Bates
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language, some sexuality and drug content.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: October 6, 2000
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