Gambit (2012 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Hoffman |
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| Written by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| Story by | Sidney Carroll |
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| Music by | Rolfe Kent |
| Cinematography | Florian Ballhaus |
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| Distributed by | CBS Films |
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89 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $14.2 million |
Gambit is a 2012 film directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. This version is scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen. It was set to be released in the United States on 12 October 2012, but never came out theatrically and went straight-to-DVD on 25 April 2014. The film premiered in Great Britain on 21 November 2012.
British art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss Lord Shabandar (Alan Rickman) by conning him into buying a fake Monet ("Haystacks at Dusk"), a painting that has been missing since 1945, after being plundered by the Nazis. He teams up with a master art forger, the Major (Tom Courtenay), and travels to Alpine, Texas to find rodeo queen PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz,) whom he plans to recruit in his scheme. She agrees and the next day the three drive out to PJ's grandmother's mobile home out in the desert. They hang the fake Monet on the wall and take a picture with the painting in the background. The picture is to appear with an article on the rodeo queen that will be published in a magazine that is part of Shabandar's media empire.
Back in London, Harry meets with Shabandar and discusses the photos of PJ and her grandmother, turning the attention to the painting. Shabandar replies that it is a reproduction, based on the fact that it was hanging on the wall of a mobile home in Texas. Harry suggests that they at least check to see if the painting is real or not, because the painting is so rarely reproduced. Shabandar reluctantly agrees, and Harry tries to find PJ to follow up on the matter. PJ offers the painting to Shabandar for 12 million pounds sterling.
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