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Welcome To Collinwood
2002
A group of petty criminals in Cleveland's East End join forces to rob a jewellery store by breaking through an adjoining wall from an empty apartment. An easy job becomes a nightmare when a beautiful woman moves into the apartment, ruining their plans. COLLINWOOD paints a tragically impoverished netherworld of Cleveland's East .. Read more
| Starring | George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington |
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| Director | Joe Russo, Anthony Russo |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Welcome To Collinwood
A group of petty criminals in Cleveland's East End join forces to rob a jewellery store by breaking through an adjoining wall from an empty apartment. An easy job becomes a nightmare when a beautiful woman moves into the apartment, ruining their plans. COLLINWOOD paints a tragically impoverished netherworld of Cleveland's East Side. Quirky career criminals Pero (Sam Rockwell), Basil (Andrew Davoli), and Toto (Michael Jeter), crawl around in burnt-out buildings speaking their own kind of cross-cultural language, passed on by generations of ex-cons. WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD is a physical comedy wrapped in a rich and enigmatic visual package from directors Anthony and Joseph Russo. It includes references to old-time vaudeville, silent film hi-jinks, and grubby antiheroes similar to those of O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU and RAISING ARIZONA. The film uses an impressive array of talented actors including William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell, Isaiah Washington, and George Clooney, who produced this film with Steven Soderbergh. Excellent, touching performances by Patricia Clarkson, Gabrielle Union, and Jennifer Esposito also add to the film's cohesive group dynamic.
| Starring | George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzman, Patricia Clarkson |
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| Director | Joe Russo, Anthony Russo |
| Studio | REDBUS |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 22 mins Watch now: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English Watch Online: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Sep 2003 Watch now: 16 Oct 2009 Production year: 2002 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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Could film-maker siblings Joe and Anthony Russo be the new Coen brothers? Well, despite obvious cinematic verve and a keen eye for sleaze — plus the fleeting presence of George Clooney (who also co-produces with Steven Soderbergh) — this, quite simply, lacks their originality. In a grotty, Cleveland-set remake of the much-loved 1958 Italian heist comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street, petty crook Luis Guzman is given details of the perfect crime or a “Bellini” — the script is at least full of enjoyable made-up slang — and a ragtag band of lowlifes is assembled for the job: drilling into a safe through the wall of an adjoining apartment. It relies too heavily on the skills of its offbeat cast (notably Sam Rockwell, William H Macy and Michael Jeter), and there's little suspense — they're clearly not going to pull it off. It's mildly diverting watching them fail, but it's all over far too quickly and the promising individual elements never really add up to a significant whole.
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Broad comedy that totally misfires; Clooney, in a minor role, disguises himself as a rabbi but fails to lift the spirits.
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54 out of 59 people found this review helpful
A curate's egg
This had the potential to be a really funny movie. The result is some rather weak set ups but some well executed slapstick comedy. Worth watching.
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- TheMovieman from Ramsbottom
- Posted 07 Jul 2005 11:21
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
The humour and casting of a Coen movie but without the payoff
Mr Clooney appears for all of ten mins in this film, and practically steals it, which is both a testament to his sheer magnetism and to the lightweightedness of the rest of the movie.
Sam Rockwell is great, as ever, and Macy is as Macy does, but the script, albeit with moments of real humour (Jeter's pants falling off being one of the best), reeks of Coen brothers. This in itself is okay, but one gets the sense that the Russo brothers set out with this goal in mind more than with the goal of making a great movie.
It all ends rather quickly with Mr Jeter (now dead) ruminating on the value of love over money.
For their first movie, the brothers Russo are so-so. -
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Welcome To Collinwood
A group of petty criminals in Cleveland's East End join forces to rob a jewellery store by breaking through an adjoining wall from an empty apartment. An easy job becomes a nightmare when a beautiful woman moves into the apartment, ruining their plans. COLLINWOOD paints a tragically impoverished ...
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