Pollini (Rowan Akinson from 'Bean') is an exuberantly cheerful, but narcoleptic, Italian fellow. Owen Temleton (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), an NFL coach who recently blew an important game, has come to the sin city to forget his horrendous mistake. There is Vera Baker (Whoopi Goldberg), who, after giving her child up for adoption as a baby, has decided to meet her daughter, Merrill (Lanai Chapman). 'There's only one rule: there are no rules!' The players include a vast variety of different characters. ' the odds of winning are one and six ' explains Sinclair.
The fist one there keeps all of the money, tax-free. The customer service sends the winners to a large banquet room where the characters learn of a two million dollar jackpot resting in a duffel bag, inside a locker, within the city of Silver City, New Mexico-seven hundred miles away. Sinclair randomly places six golden coins in several different slot machines. He wants to keep his wealthy, high stakes gamblers interested in his gambling techniques so he arranges a new, quasi-legal sporting event for them to bet on: a human rat race. John Cleese stars as the eccentric Las Vegas casino tycoon named Donald Sinclair.
'Rat Race' also contains a terrific cast and provides enough laughs to be worthy of at least one viewing. The audience does not necessarily laugh at every single joke the movie throws, but the humor is timed well. Its laugh-a-minute attitude works for the creative situations. Good comparison-'Race Race' is indeed a visual comedy. 'It's very visual and there are lots of big visual stunts,' Zucker explains in the film's production notes, 'kind of a James Bond comedy in a way because there are so many sight gags.' After years of directing straight dramas, Zucker says he is thrilled to be back doing comedy. Who better to breathe life into the subject than Jerry Zucker, the mastermind behind the 'Naked Gun' films, and 'Airplane,' two of the most hilarious movies I have seen. 'Rat Race' revives a genre Hollywood has neglected since the sixties: the big event, ensemble chase comedy.
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