Simpatico (play)

Simpatico (play)

Infobox Film | name = Simpatico


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director = Matthew Warchus
producer = Jean-François Fonlupt
Dan Lupovitz
Timm Oberwelland
writer = Sam Shepard (play)
Matthew Warchus & David Nicholls (screenplay)
starring = Nick Nolte
Jeff Bridges
Sharon Stone
Catherine Keener
Albert Finney
music = Stewart Copeland
cinematography =Laurent Bassett
John Toll
editing = Pasquale Buba
Seth Flaum
distributor = Fine Line Features
released = 1999
runtime = 106 min.
language =
budget =
imdb_id = 0174204

"Simpatico" is a 1993 play by American playwright Sam Shepard adapted for the screen in 1999 starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney.

Plot

As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?


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