The Opportunists

The Opportunists

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starring = Christopher Walken
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"The Opportunists" is a 2000 film starring Christopher Walken, with an appearance by Cyndi Lauper as the New Yorker Sally Mahon. It is assigned the criteria of a comedy/crime drama.

The film's protagonist is Victor "Vic" Kelly, a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. When a supposed cousin from Ireland visits Vic, and Vic's girlfriend offers to use her modeling career-money to aid him, the auto mechanic takes one last shot at a lucrative robbery - with his Irish cohort - to pay off his debts.

Taglines

*"Crime pays."
*"When crime is all you know, you've got to take what you can."

The movie was nominated for an Artios Award for Best Casting For Feature Film, Independent, as well as an Open Palm Award for Myles Connell in 2000.

External links

* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0138681/ The Opportunists] on The Internet Movie Database


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