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Rat Race (2001 film)

Rat Race
Rat Race poster.jpg
US theatrical release poster.
Directed by Jerry Zucker
Produced by Jerry Zucker
Janet Zucker
Sean Daniel
Written by Andy Breckman
Starring Rowan Atkinson
Lanai Chapman
John Cleese
Whoopi Goldberg
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Seth Green
Wayne Knight
Jon Lovitz
Breckin Meyer
Kathy Najimy
Amy Smart
Dave Thomas
Vince Vieluf
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by Tom Lewis
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • August 17, 2001 (2001-08-17)
Running time
112 minutes
Country Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $48 million
Box office $85.5 million

Rat Race is a 2001 American ensemble comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker, written by Andy Breckman, and starring Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanai Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, Wayne Knight, John Cleese, Dave Thomas, Dean Cain, and Kathy Bates.

The main plot revolves around six teams of people who are given the task of racing 563 miles from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station, where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with $2 million. The first person to reach the locker wins and gets to keep the money. The film has a plot similar to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Scavenger Hunt.

Donald Sinclair (John Cleese), the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casino's slot machines, and the winners are gathered together and told that $2 million in cash is hidden in a duffel bag in a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico, 563 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Each team is given a key to the locker and told to race across the desert to the train station and claim the money. Unbeknownst to the competitors, Sinclair's wealthy patrons are placing bets on who will win. The group of patrons continue to make smaller bets throughout the course of the film, facilitated by Sinclair's assistant Grisham (Dave Thomas), who at one point hires an escort as part of a dare.


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