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Safe Men is a american film of genre Comedy directed by John Hamburg released in USA on 7 august 1998 with Sam Rockwell
Safe Men (1998)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 august 1998
Length 1h28
Directed by John Hamburg
OriginUSA
Themes Buddy films
Rating57%
Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti).
Safe Men was the debut film by Hamburg, who went on to write screenplays for such films as Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Along Came Polly, and I Love You, Man, which he also directed.
Synopsis
Deux artistes ratés se font involontairement enrôler en tant que pilleurs de coffres professionnels par un mafieux local. Tandis qu'ils essayent de cacher leur incompétence, l'un d'eux tombe amoureux de la fille d'un "client" qu'ils sont censés cambrioler.Actors
Sam Rockwell
(Samuel)
Steve Zahn
(Eddie)
Michael Lerner
(Big Fat Bernie Gayle)
Paul Giamatti
(Veal Chop)
Mark Ruffalo
(Frank)
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