Get Carter (2000 film)
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| Directed by | Stephen Kay |
| Produced by | Mark Canton Neil Canton |
| Written by | Novel: Ted Lewis Screenplay: David McKenna |
| Starring | Sylvester Stallone Miranda Richardson Rachael Leigh Cook Mickey Rourke Michael Caine |
| Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 6, 2000 |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Budget | $ 40,000,000 |
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Get Carter is the 2000 remake of the classic 1971 Michael Caine crime film, starring Sylvester Stallone in the role of Jack Carter.
The film also features Miranda Richardson (Gloria Carter), Rachael Leigh Cook (Doreen Carter), Alan Cumming (Jeremy Kinnear), Mickey Rourke (Cyrus Paice), Rhona Mitra (Geraldine) and Michael Caine (Cliff Brumby).
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[edit] Plot
Jack Carter (Stallone) is a cool and calculating Irish mob enforcer who's known for his physical means of getting the job done.
When told that his brother Richie was killed in a drunk driving accident, Jack returns home to Seattle where he tries to make amends with Richie's wife, Gloria (Richardson), and his niece Doreen (Cook). Jack also investigates Richie's death after he realizes Richie was murdered. While he starts snooping around, his mob partner in Las Vegas, Con McCarty (McGinley), covers for him with the Irish mob boss, Fletcher. A secondary plot revolves around an affair Carter was having with Fletcher's girlfriend, Audrey (Mol).
His first stop in his investigation is with loan shark Cliff Brumby (Caine), the owner of the club that Richie managed. Brumby doesn't believe Jack's allegations of murder, but does tell him that Richie was having an affair with Geraldine (Mitra), an associate of Irish mob boss Cyrus Paice (Rourke).
Cyrus is Jack's old enemy, and while Jack can't get anything from Cyrus, Cyrus unknowingly leads Jack to Jeremy Kinnear (Cumming), a nightclub owner who uses Cyrus's services for female accompaniment, as well as Eddie (Strong), one of the club' strongest bouncers and enforcers. Although he can't get any straight answers, Jack continues to pursue the truth, carefully examining the surveillance tapes from Brumby's club, looking for anything that might offer any sort of clue.
Jack discovers that Cyrus had made an amateur porn movie where he and Geraldine would pick up different young girls, drug them and rape them. Jack watches the film and learns that Doreen was one of the victims. Cyrus and those who helped him make the disc didn't know that Doreen was Richie's daughter. Before Richie was murdered, he had found the disc and said he was taking it to the police. Richie was murdered to cover up the discovery of the tape, with Cyrus having it set up to look like an accident.
Con and a fellow Irish gangster from Las Vegas track Jack down and confront him after Jack says he's done with Vegas. After knocking both of the men out, Jack has a talk with Doreen about what happened.
Intending to settle the score, Jack begins a path of vengeance. He gets a frantic, apologetic call from Geraldine, whom he finds dead of a drug overdose. He then heads straight to Eddie's apartment, and throws Eddie off of a balcony to his death. Carter gets involved in a car chase with Con and the other bouncers, only to lose them when he causes them to lose control of their vehicle. Visiting Kinnear's house, he confronts Cyrus, who tells Jack that he should be going after Kinnear, because Kinnear is the man behind Ritchie's murder. Jack has a vicious fight with Cyrus, losing at first only to return and kill Cyrus. He then confronts Kinnear, who says that all he told Cyrus to do was get the disc back from Richie, not kill Richie, and Kinnear also says that Cyrus was working with Brumby, and that it was Cyrus and Brumby who killed Richie. Carter decides to not kill Kinnear.
After getting a call from Audrey, who breaks up with him, Carter confronts Brumby. Brumby gets the drop on Carter, but Carter kills him.
After settling the score for his dead brother, Carter starts thinking that maybe collecting debts for an Irish mob boss is not the life for him, having formed a bond with Doreen.
[edit] Cast
- Sylvester Stallone ... Jack Carter
- Miranda Richardson ... Gloria Carter
- Rachael Leigh Cook ... Doreen Carter
- Rhona Mitra ... Geraldine
- Johnny Strong ... Eddie
- John C. McGinley ... Con McCarty
- Alan Cumming ... Jeremy Kinnear
- Michael Caine ... Cliff Brumby
- John Cassini ... Thorpey
- Mickey Rourke ... Cyrus Paice
[edit] Critical reception
The film was poorly received, especially by critics, who felt that it failed to live up to the original. It received only a 12% favorable rating among the critics tracked by Rottentomatoes.com.[1] The movie was also a failure at the box office, with worldwide takings of approximately US$19 million coming well under the production budget of $40 million.
Most fans' frustration was due to the entirely changed ending, which does not even remotely resemble that of the original film.[citation needed]
The film was deemed 'Worst Remake Ever' in a 2004 poll by DVD rental firm ScreenSelect [2].
It was also nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards in 2000. Worst Actor (Sylvester Stallone) and Worst Remake or Sequel.
[edit] Box office
U.S. Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 14,967,182
- + Other International Takings: $4,445,811
= Gross Worldwide Takings: $19,412,993
