Title: Gambit
Date: 2012
Type: Crime drama / Comedy
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Michael Hoffman
Producer: Adam Ripp / Rob Paris / Mike Lobell
Comment
An art appraisor (Colin Firth) gets fed up with his boss (Alan Rickman) and sets up to scam him by getting him to buy a fake valuable painting, but the plan involves a slightly wild female American rodeo rider (Cameron Diaz). This is an entertaining drama that has romantic overtones. The three main leads of Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman play stereotypical characters, but the script and their acting carries the film and makes it light but enagaging. Not a classic, but worth watching for the lead performances.
Actors
Colin Firth
Cameron Diaz
Alan Rickman
Tom Courteny
Stanley Tucci
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Pip Torrens
Selina Cadell
Togo Igawa
Cloris Leachman
Ana Skellern
Oscars
None
Writers
Joel and Ethan Cohen