Go (1999) on Netflix
Ronna, a supermarket clerk short on rent, offers to sell two customers the twenty ecstasy pills they wanted from her coworker Simon. Simon is away in Las Vegas for the holiday.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.2/1080,802 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
Ronna, a clerk at a Los Angeles supermarket, is working her third shift in a row on Christmas Eve and needs rent money by the next morning or she will lose her apartment. Two customers, Adam and Zack, ask her for twenty ecstasy pills they had hoped to buy from her coworker Simon, who is away; they want them for a party that night. Ronna takes on the errand herself and visits Simon's supplier, Todd. She cannot pay him the full amount, so Claire, a fellow cashier, stays behind with Todd while Ronna goes to meet Adam and Zack. Simon, meanwhile, is in Las Vegas for the first time with Marcus, Tiny and Singh.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Go (1999)
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- Producers told director Doug Liman that the Las Vegas Strip car chase would have to be cut for budget reasons. He instead spent almost a third of his budget on that one scene, scrimped on the rest of the film and acted as his own cinematographer.
- Writer John August pictured Ronna as African American, but Sarah Polley's performance in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter convinced Doug Liman she was right for the part. Polley was offered it without auditioning, with Christina Ricci considered as a backup, and she declined several times before accepting.
- Timothy Olyphant auditioned for either Zack or Adam and ended up as drug dealer Todd Gaines. He was a late addition: he had been about to shoot Practical Magic but was fired from that role and replaced by Aidan Quinn, which freed him to join Go.
- When Go was about to start shooting, its foreign financing fell through because the film lacked a “bankable white male star”. Columbia Pictures stepped in and financed the film instead.
- Melissa McCarthy was still a student when Jennifer Coolidge, then a member of the Groundlings, pushed for her to be cast in her first film role, as Sandra. “I didn't know she knew I was alive,” McCarthy said.
- Sarah Polley credits Go with making her a director. It started with a lunch meeting with Doug Liman, before she was sure she wanted to act and before he had even read the script; watching him and John August collaborate convinced her to become a filmmaker.
- Go left a mark on The Simpsons: according to the show's own writers' commentary, the episode “Trilogy of Error” is based on this film.
