
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 • Crime | Comedy
Frank Oz
Director
Status
Released
Release date
December 14, 1988
Duration
110 Min
Language
en
Popularity
2.6393
Budget
$6,500,000
Revenue
$42,000,000
Overview
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
Cast

Steve Martin

Michael Caine

Glenne Headly

Anton Rodgers

Barbara Harris

Ian McDiarmid

Dana Ivey

Meagen Fay

Frances Conroy

Nicole Calfan

Aïna Walle

Rupert Holliday-Evans

Hepburn Graham

Xavier Maly

André Penvern

Louis Zorich