Gone in 60 Seconds is a 2000 action film, starring Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Duvall, Will Patton and Angelina Jolie. The film was directed by Dominic Sena, and written by Scott Rosenberg. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of The Rock, and Armageddon, and is a remake of the 1974 H.B. Halicki film of the same name.
The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and throughout Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.| Gone in 60 Seconds | |
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| Directed by | Dominic Sena |
| Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer Mike Stenson |
| Written by | H.B. Halicki (1974 motion picture) Scott Rosenberg (screenplay) |
| Starring | Nicolas Cage Giovanni Ribisi Christopher Eccleston Robert Duvall Will Patton Angelina Jolie |
| Music by | Ian Ball Trevor Rabin |
| Cinematography | Paul Cameron |
| Editing by | Roger Barton Chris Lebenzon Tom Muldoon |
| Studio | Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 9, 2000 (US) June 8, 2000 (New Zealand) June 29, 2000 (Australia) August 4, 2000 (UK) |
| Running time | 117 minutes (original version) 127 minutes (director's cut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Gross revenue | $237,202,299 |
Plot
The film follows Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage), a retired master car thief who is forced to return to Los Angeles, and back to his former trade and steal fifty specified cars by 8:00am, Friday morning, for British crime boss Raymond Vincent Calitri (Christopher Eccleston), who is threatening to kill Memphis' younger brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi). Memphis must steal all fifty cars as his brother Kip had failed to successfully fulfill the 'boost' contract with Calitri, (a stolen Porsche Carrera was chased to Kip's warehouse and the collected cars were impounded).
Memphis now has to fulfill the contract and so reassembles his old crew also joined by Kip's crew.
With LAPD Det. Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo) and his partner, Detective Drycoff (Timothy Olyphant) breathing down their necks, they decide to steal all the cars in one night in order to reduce the chances of being caught.
But unfortunately, the police already know about the boost and, after cracking an employee at the Mercedes dealership, who had earlier supplied Kip's crew with the special laser cut keys for a Mercedes, SL200 set a trap to catch them in action. The gang decides to steal, or "boost," all 50 cars in one night to try to catch the police by surprise. The night before the deadline, they start stealing the cars en masse. The police choose to watch the Mercedes and lie in wait for the thieves to make their move. However, Memphis notices the police surveillance and is able to avoid police detection. Instead, the Mercedes with the laser cut keys are stolen from the Police Impound lot.
Later, Castleback and Drycoff receive a notice about the lightbulbs Detective Lindo finds at the first crime scene: they are blacklights. They go and discover the "The Shopping List" at the warehouse of the beginning of the movie, which was written in magic marker, undetectable except by blacklight. Knowing that Memphis will save the 1967 Shelby GT 500 a.k.a. "Eleanor" for last, they locate the only one in Long beach just as Memphis is boosting it. Thus begins a high-speed chase through Long Beach, which concludes with a high risk jump over a traffic jam on the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
After Memphis brings the damaged Eleanor to Calitri's salvage yard, Calitri decides to have Memphis killed instead of Kip, due to the fact that he is twelve minutes late, and car number 50 is damaged. After Kip and Atley Jackson save Memphis, Memphis heads into the warehouse to exact revenge on Calitri. Detective Lindo shows up and is ultimately saved from Calitri by Memphis, while Calitri falls to his death. Lindo lets Memphis go with the unspoken understanding that Memphis is still retired. Later, back at Otto's, the gang are having a sort of victory celebration barbecue, Sphinx (Vinnie Jones) bestows some words of wisdom (the only time he speaks in the film) and Kip gives Memphis a gift of the beaten-up 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500.
The film concludes with Memphis and Sway (Angelina Jolie) going for a ride and the car breaking down. The words "Oh, not again. Don't do this to me . . . I need you, Eleanor" are said before the credits roll across the screen.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Randall "Memphis" Raines
- Angelina Jolie as Sara "Sway" Wayland
- Robert Duvall as Otto Halliwell
- Will Patton as Atley Jackson
- Delroy Lindo as Detective Roland Castlebeck
- Giovanni Ribisi as Kip Raines
- Christopher Eccleston as Raymond Vincent Calitri
- Vinnie Jones as Sphinx
- Scott Caan as Tumbler
- T.J. Cross as Mirror Man
- James Duval as Freb
- Timothy Olyphant as Detective Drycoff
- Chi McBride as Donny Astricky
- William Lee Scott as Toby
- Grace Zabriskie as Helen Raines
- Frances Fisher as Junie Halliwell
- Stephen Shellen as Roger the Car Salesman
- Trevor Goddard as Don .
- Master P. as Johnny B.
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