Synopsis
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
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Cast
- Christian SlaterTrevor Allen Finch
- Tim AllenCritical Jim
- Portia de RossiTess Donnelly
- Richard DreyfussMicah Donnelly
- Billy ConnollyDr Savian
- RuPaulGinger Markum
- Peter MacNeillDetective Tripp
- Bill MacDonaldDetective Delaney
- Richard ChevolleauDetective Horst
- Elias ZarouDetective Rafferty
Recommendations
- 80
Washington Post
A caper film of such postmodernist pretense that it's almost a parody of itself. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
There was a lot I liked in Cletis Tout, including the performances and the very audacity of details like the magic tricks and the carrier pigeons. But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Chris Ver Wiel, took a perfectly sound story idea and complicated it into an exercise in style. Less is more. - 63
Miami Herald
Harmless, mildly enjoyable. - 60
Chicago Reader
Writer-director Chris Ver Wiel stocks this diverting crime comedy with familar characters and formulas. - 50
Charlotte Observer
The yarn itself is a winning one. - 50
Boston Globe
Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.''' - 40
Washington Post
Cletis Tout is both in love with and able to laugh at the conventions it adopts, which is exactly where it goes wrong. It's just a little too self-satisfied. - 30
The New York Times
This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.
