Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) on Netflix
PG-1320001h 58mActionCrimeThriller
Reformed car thief Memphis Raines is pulled back in when his brother Kip botches a job for gangster Raymond Calitri. The price of Kip's freedom is fifty cars stolen in one night.
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Plot summary
Kip Raines runs with a crew that steals luxury cars for Raymond Calitri, a gangster based in Long Beach, California. After Kip takes a Porsche from a showroom, the police trace him to the crew's warehouse and the thieves scatter. Detectives Castlebeck and Drycoff seize the vehicles and open an investigation. Calitri's associate Atley Jackson turns to Kip's brother Randall "Memphis" Raines, a car thief who left the life behind years earlier. Calitri has taken Kip and threatens him with a car crusher; to win his brother's freedom, Memphis agrees to deliver fifty cars within 72 hours, and failure means death for the brothers and their mother. Memphis seeks out his old mentor Otto Halliwell.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Depending on the source, either eleven or twelve Eleanor cars were built by Cinema Vehicle Services for the film; nine were shells and three were fully functional, and seven were reported to have survived the filming and made it back to Cinema Vehicle Services.
- The film's trailer was narrated by Melissa Disney, and the film is widely credited as one of the first major movies to employ a female trailer voice.
- Due to its high production and marketing costs, Gone in 60 Seconds is estimated to have lost the studio about $90 million, although due to Hollywood accounting Disney wrote it down as a $212 million loss.
- At the 2000 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards the film won Worst Screenplay for a Film That Grossed over $100 Million and Most Intrusive Musical Score, while Angelina Jolie was nominated for Worst On-Screen Hairstyle but lost to John Travolta and Forest Whitaker for Battlefield Earth.
- In 1995 Denice Shakarian Halicki entered into a license contract to produce the remake with Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer; the film was slated for Disney's Hollywood Pictures label until it was transferred to Touchstone Pictures during production, and Nicolas Cage dropped out of The Perfect Storm in favor of it.
