Simpatico (play)

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This article is about the Sam Shepard film. For other uses, see Simpatico (disambiguation).

Simpatico

Directed by	Matthew Warchus
Produced by	Jean-François Fonlupt Dan Lupovitz Timm Oberwelland
Written by	Sam Shepard (play) Matthew Warchus & David Nicholls (screenplay)
Starring	Nick Nolte Jeff Bridges Sharon Stone Catherine Keener Albert Finney
Music by	Stewart Copeland
Cinematography	Laurent Bassett John Toll
Editing by	Pasquale Buba Seth Flaum
Distributed by	Fine Line Features
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	106 min.
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Simpatico is a 1993 play by American playwright Sam Shepard adapted for the screen in 1999 starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney.

[edit] Plot

As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?