Gone in Sixty Seconds
Short description
Randall "Memphis" Raines has left his life as a car thief behind, but his younger brother Kip is still in the trade and gets caught up in a job that goes badly wrong. To settle the debt, Memphis must come out of retirement and pull off one huge score: stealing fifty high-end cars in a single night for the crime boss Raymond Calitri. He reassembles his old crew, including the mechanic Otto Halliwell and his former partner and girlfriend Sway, while Detective Roland Castlebeck closes in.
Released in 2000, the film was directed by Dominic Sena, following his 1993 debut Kalifornia and preceding Swordfish, Whiteout and Season of the Witch. Scott Rosenberg wrote the screenplay, and Jerry Bruckheimer produced. Nicolas Cage plays Memphis, with Angelina Jolie as Sway, Giovanni Ribisi as Kip, Robert Duvall as Otto, Delroy Lindo as Castlebeck and Timothy Olyphant as Detective Drycoff, among a credited cast of 63 and crew of 196. It is a remake of a 1974 film of the same name.
Made for about 90 million dollars, it took roughly 237 million worldwide, a solid commercial result. Audiences are lukewarm: 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from around 309,000 votes, and the same score on TMDB from about 5,000 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 out of 10 from 138 reviews is noticeably lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Nicolas Cage performed almost all of the car stunts himself during filming.
- In the scene where the Hamer Sphinx destroys the police car, it wasn't planned for the police car to roll down the slope. Vinnie Jones simply didn’t have enough room to reverse and nudged the police car a little harder, causing it to tumble down the slope.
- One of the early script drafts contained many elements from the original film. For example, before stealing Eleanor, Memphis was supposed to disguise himself as an old man, and the Sphinx wasn't supposed to have a nose, which explained his nickname.
- During the theft of the last car, Memphis knocks off one of the side mirrors, but half a minute later the car is shown with intact mirrors.
- In the scene where Sarah Wayland is fixing the car in the garage, the wrenches are arranged differently in each subsequent shot.
- Filming took place from May 24 to October 10, 1999.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
