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6.3In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Cast
- Gloria Allred as Gloria Allred
- Breckin Meyer as Nick Schaffer
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Owen Templeton
- Lanei Chapman as Merrill Jennings
- Amy Smart as Tracy Faucet
- Seth Green as Duane Cody
Themes
- casino
- road trip
- millionaire
- eccentric millionaire
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jerry Zucker
- Written by
- Andy Breckman
- Produced by
- Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker, Sean Daniel
- Starring
- Rowan Atkinson , John Cleese , Whoopi Goldberg , Cuba Gooding Jr , Seth Green , Jon Lovitz , Breckin Meyer , Kathy Najimy , Amy Smart
- Cinematography
- Thomas E. Ackerman
- Edited by
- Tom Lewis
- Music by
- John Powell , Elmer Bernstein , (unused score)
- Production companies
- Paramount Pictures , Fireworks Pictures , Alphaville Films , Zucker Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures (North America) Fireworks Pictures (International)
- Release date
- August 17, 2001 ( 2001-08-17 )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Countries
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $48 million
- Box office
- $85.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker. Written by Andy Breckman, the film is inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and it features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf and Dave Thomas.
The film centers on six teams of people who are given the task of racing 563 miles (906 km) from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico, train station where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with $2 million. Each team is given a key to the locker, and the first person to reach the locker gets the money.
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