A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
Writing
Three interlocking stories that actually pay off
Direction
Liman's kinetic style before he got Bourne-ified
Acting
Olyphant's sleazy charisma is off the charts
Director
Doug Liman
Sarah Polley
Ronna Martin
Timothy Olyphant
Todd Gaines
Katie Holmes
Claire Montgomery
Desmond Askew
Simon Baines
Jay Mohr
Zack
Scott Wolf
Adam
Taye Diggs
Marcus
William Fichtner
Burke
Nathan Bexton
Mannie
Breckin Meyer
Tiny
James Duval
Singh
J.E. Freeman
Victor Sr.
Jimmy Shubert
Victor Jr.
Jane Krakowski
Irene
Melissa McCarthy
Sandra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Liman's follow-up to Swingers, and he shot the rave scenes at actual underground parties with real ravers as extras.
The film captures the precise moment before the dot-com bust and 9/11 killed '90s slacker culture dead—it's a time capsule of pre-irony earnestness.
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