Reindeer Games (2000) on Netflix
Rudy Duncan leaves prison and takes the identity of his dead cellmate, Nick Cassidy, to meet the woman Nick wrote to. Her brother wants Nick's help with a casino robbery.
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Plot summary
Rudy Duncan has served six years for grand theft auto, and two days before parole he listens to his cellmate Nick Cassidy talk about Ashley Mercer, the woman Nick has written to but never met. Nick is killed in a prison riot, and when Rudy walks free he passes himself off as Nick and meets Ashley. Gabriel, Ashley's brother, has the two of them taken, and he wants the man he believes to be Nick, a former employee of a casino in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to help rob it. Rudy insists he is not Nick, but Gabriel's crew, Pug, Merlin and Jumpy, are already preparing the job with Nick in mind.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Reindeer Games (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Vin Diesel was originally cast as gang member Pug, but left the production over creative disagreements with director John Frankenheimer about his character; Diesel later co-starred with Ben Affleck again in Boiler Room.
- Director John Frankenheimer cut a more explicit version of the sex scene between Ben Affleck's and Charlize Theron's characters from the theatrical release because he feared it would earn the film an NC-17 rating from the MPAA.
- Reindeer Games turned out to be director John Frankenheimer's final feature film; he died in 2002, two years after its release.
