Matchstick Men

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Matchstick Men

Synopsis: Meet Roy and his ambitious protégé Frank, a couple of con artists. Grifters. Matchstick Men. Business is good: the two run a successful, small-time scam. But Roy's personal life is a mess. Chain-smoking, obsessive-compulsive, and agoraphobic, with idiosyncrasies that threaten his criminal productivity, Roy requires a psychoanalyst just to stay in working order. Now, much to his shock he discovers he has a 14-year-old daughter, Angela, who wants to know her father. And as Roy and Frank develop a style of parenting with a unique spin, they realize that Angela has an interest and a knack for the family business as she earns her place as one of the Matchstick Men.; show more

Release:: 2003

Running Time:: 116 min

Cast:: Nicolas Cage; Sam Rockwell; Alison Lohman; Bruce Altman

Director:: Ridley Scott

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by anurag v

a wonderful surprise

It is wrong to describe MATCHSTICK MEN as a caper-movie, all though the main characters are two great con-men (sorry, con ARTISTS). It is however a wonderful character-driven drama about a neurotic criminal who gets his life turned upside-down when the 14 year old daughter he has never seen suddenly enters his life as he is about to pull ...