Plan B
Actor(s):
Frank Pellegrino, Paul Sorvino, Anthony DeSando, Diane Keaton, Nick Sandow
Director(s):
Greg Yaitanes
Label: Warner Home Video
Publisher(s):
Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
MPN: 69337
Format(s): AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Rating: R (Restricted)
List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $17.99
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Editorial Reviews
Description
Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton ("Something's Gotta Give," "The First Wives Club") stars in this "Married to the Mob" farce! A meek bookkeeper, and widow of a New York Mob victim, must become the hit man for the Mob boss in order to pay back her husband's debt. Instead of carrying out the deeds, she drives each of her proposed victims down to Florida to hide at her estranged brother's house. The boss gets wind that the victims may not be dead, and pays a visit to Florida, where he uncovers her flimsy plan and the hilarity ensues. With an all-star cast including Paul Sorvino ("Bulworth," "Goodfellas"), Oscar-nominee Bob Balaban ("A Mighty Wind," "Gosford Park"), Oscar-nominee Burt Young ("Rocky I-V," "Once Upon a Time in America") and Natasha Lyonne ("American Pie 1&2," "Scary Movie 2").
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Greg Yaitanes (director)
Other:Screen Test
Customer Reviews
Mezzanine
Ding Ding Ding!!! What a great IDEA for a movie. Watching this movie was the highline of my week. Make sure you stock up on your toner and popCORN!
I think its a winner
I find it absolutely inconceivable that such poor reviews were given to such a witty and hilarious film. It's certainly not a movie for the dim-witted; anyone who has confidence in their ability to truly judge clever yet subtle humor will absolutely love this masterpiece. If your sense of humor jives with comedies such as Caddyshack, Fletch, Office Space or Clerks, you'll be religiously watching Plan B on a daily basis.
Run do not walk to the exits
The director of this ridiculous film should be drummed from the Film Academy and the Script writer indicted for malpractice. Diane Keaton is a great actress and Paul Sorvino has an excellent body of work to point to but why these two high quality professionals agreed to perform this abortion which I refuse to call a movie much less a film, is beyond comprehension. Keaton is a wonderful actress who is totally wasted here as she trembles, screeches, and twitches her way through her part as a reluctant hitman. Sorvino is surrounded by the largest group of numbskulls this side of a Laurel and Hardy skit. There is nothing funny or original about this movie and it is embarrassing to watch the cast disgrace themselves trying to make this screenplay work -- If there was ever a movie where the audience should demand their money back -- this is it. Keaton and Sorvino should expunge this piece of dreck from their resume. Why I gave it one star I have no idea -- it deserves a minus star
Insulting Garbage
Trying to watch the female actor in this mismash was unbearable. You just want to get out of the room as fast as possible.
Even Diane Keaton and Paul Sorvino Can't Save this Mess!
PLAN B has the appearance of a quickly made, unedited, sloppy script for a movie with the attempt for an outing for the actors involved - an outing that should have been nixed from the start. It is just another Mafia-based 'comedy' that has nothing new and lowers the standard for those participating.
Joe Maloni (Paul Sorvino) is the crime boss more concerned about clothing and appearances than about his business of control. His personal assistant Mario (Anthony DeSando) is dumber than dirt and his ignorance is supposed to be funny. Maloni has whacked one of his debtors (who just happens to be married to bookish Fran - Diane Keaton) and Maloni takes Fran on as his assistant to work off her dead husband's debt by being Maloni's 'hit man'. Fran is afraid of her own shadow and is unable to carry out Maloni's assignments, electing instead to transport her 'whackees' to Florida to hide at her brother James' house until she can figure out what to do next. This alternative to killing the three candidates is called Plan B, Plan A being to kill them! The ending is wholly predictable just as is every line assigned in teh script to the characters.
Diane Keaton has made a lot of fine films and is one of our most talented actresses and comediennes, but here she screams and rants and twitches her way through a ridiculous part that quickly becomes annoying to watch. Paul Sorvino is, well, the Paul Sorvino type cast from other mobster films. The supporting cast is likewise allowed to play to the balcony in the broadest slapstick, pratfall fashion imaginable. What is supposed to be a comedy ends up being just silly and overdone. Director Greg Yaitanes needs to go back to TV sitcoms: had this flimsy story been compressed into a half-hour gig it might have had a chance. Grady Harp, May 06
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