Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.
Leave your thoughts about The Grifters.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe performances are all insidiously powerful. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is pulp, yet it attains a surprising emotional power-especially when Anjelica Huston's Lilly, a survivor who'll do whatever it takes to master her surroundings, is on-screen. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJohn StoneIf Frears and screenwriter Donald E. Westlake (who scripted "The Stepfather") are light on substance, they're satisfyingly heavy on nuance. Grifters may not blow you away afterward but it keeps your attention riveted during. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelWestlake's screenplay has the right combination of vivid characters, mordant wit and avaricious savagery which distinguishes the best noir. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThis is not a bad film, it just fails to materialize into a very good one. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyThe Grifters is so good that one leaves the theater on a spellbound high. |
| Time OutStephen GarrettDonald Westlake's excellent screenplay does some justice to the starkness of Jim Thompson's novel; and Frears' direction never fails to grab the attention. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenIndeed, as the film unreels to its extraordinary climax - a scene that will make your skin crawl - Frears has the larger target right in his sights and, bang, pulls the thematic trigger, taking no prisoners. |
| Washington PostHal Hinson[Huston] brings a vital conviction to her scenes; they're scorchingly immediate, and her ability to get in sync with what Lily's feeling is what gives the movie weight. She may be the best we have. |
| TIME MagazineRichard CorlissBest to savor The Grifters for its handsome design -- the picture looks as clean as a Hockney landscape -- and its juicy performances. |
