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Safe Men movie storyline. Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won’t date the men she knows are gangsters.
Safe Men is a 1998 American criminal comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg (in his directorial debut), and stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers, and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Big Fat’s intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti). Hamburg later wrote screenplays for a few films, such as Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Along Came Polly and I Love You, Man, which he also directed.
Safe Men (1998)
Directed by: John Hamburg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Christina Kirk, John Hamburg, Ali Marsh, Michael Showalter, Jacob Reynolds
Screenplay by: John Hamburg
Production Design by: Anthony Gasparro
Cinematography by: Michael Barrett
Film Editing by: Suzanne Pillsbury, M. Scott Smith
Costume Design by: Catherine Marie Thomas
Set Decoration by: James Clauer
Art Direction by: Ondine Karady
Music by: Theodore Shapiro
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: October Films
Release Date: August 7, 1998
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