Bait (film)

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Bait

Bait movie poster
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Produced by Sean Ryerson
Written by Andrew Scheinman
Adam Scheinman
Tony Gilroy
Starring Jamie Foxx
Music by Mark Mancina
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) September 15, 2000
Running time 119 minutes
Language English
Budget $35,000,000 (estimated)
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Bait is a 2000 action comedy starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse and Doug Hutchison. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua.

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[edit] Plot

Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster (who was told that nobody would get hurt) flees with the gold. He buries it, then drinks and drives, gets caught for DUI and is put in jail. He lies low in jail so that Bristol will not kill him.

Eventually, Bristol tracks him to prison; however, Jaster, who has a bad heart, for which he takes nitroglycerin, accidentally dies under interrogation. He tells Alvin Sanders (Foxx), a petty con artist incarcerated for stealing shrimp, to tell his wife (who is, unbeknownst to him, dead) to go to the Bronx Zoo, and that there's "no place like home".

Treasury agent Edgar Cleenton, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Cleenton to track and him and listen to all his conversations.

[edit] Censorship

  • The scene where Alvin and Lisa have sex, after Alvin tells her about tragic stories of his childhood was removed from the U.S. television version in order to keep it's TV-14 rating.

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Films directed by Antoine Fuqua

The Replacement Killers (1998) • Bait (2000) • Training Day (2001) • Tears of the Sun (2003) • King Arthur (2004) • Shooter (2007) • Brooklyn's Finest (2008) • Escobar (2009)
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