Out of Sight

Out of Sight is a 1998 Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was released on June 26, 1998.

Other cast members include Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Dennis Farina, and Albert Brooks, as well as Soderbergh regulars Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán, and Catherine Keener. In addition, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton both have cameos, with Keaton playing the same character he portrays in the movie Jackie Brown (which stars Jackson), based on Leonard’s novel Rum Punch.

The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer Danny DeVito bought the rights to the book after his success with the 1995 film adaptation of Leonard's novel Get Shorty. Out of Sight is regarded as Soderbergh's comeback movie after several critically acclaimed but financially disappointing films. It was nominated for two Academy Awards (adapted screenplay and editing) and many other prizes. It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best screenplay and the National Society of Film Critics awards for best film, screenplay, and director. A modest success in its theatrical release, it led to a spinoff TV series, Karen Sisco, and has achieved a cult following. The film is widely acknowledged to be one of Soderbergh's major works.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

The story revolves around the relationship between a career bank robber, Jack Foley (Clooney), and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco (Lopez). They are forced to share her car trunk during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Sisco chases Foley while he and his friends - his right-hand man, Buddy (Rhames) and Glenn (Zahn) - work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley (Brooks), who foolishly bragged to them years before about a diamond stash at his mansion. But a vicious criminal (Cheadle) who also spent time in jail with Jack and Ripley, is planning on hitting up Ripley's mansion with his crew as well. The question of whether Sisco is really pursuing Foley to arrest him or for love adds to "the fun" Foley claims they are having.

Trivia

• Danny DeVito and Garry Shandling were considered for the part of Ripley before Brooks was cast. DeVito previously co-starred in the film version of Leonard's Get Shorty and, later, its sequel Be Cool.
• This is the first of many collaborations between George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, who later directed Clooney in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy, a remake of Solaris and The Good German. Clooney and Soderbergh are the co-founders of Section Eight Productions, which produced Good Night and Good Luck and Full Frontal among many other films.
• There is also a British television series for children with the same name (1996-1998 with Shane Fox).

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