Ruby Cairo
| Ruby Cairo (aka Deception) | |
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| Directed by | Graeme Clifford |
| Produced by | Haruki Kadokawa Lloyd Phillips Hiroshi Sugawara |
| Written by |
Robert Dillon Michael Thomas |
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| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | László Kovács |
| Edited by | Caroline Biggerstaff Paul Rubell Mark Winitsky |
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Majestic Films International
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Theatrical: 90 minutes Video: 111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $608,866 (USA) |
Ruby Cairo is a 1992 film directed by Graeme Clifford. It stars Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen. One scene features Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law.
"Adults play the most dangerous games".
When Bessie Faro's (Andie MacDowell) husband Johnny (Viggo Mortensen) dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she finds a packet of baseball cards that have been marked up by Johnny. Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account. When she tries to withdraw money from the account, she is denied. She realizes that the account is in the name of the player on the card, Onix Concepción.
Back home, Bessie uses an International bank directory at the local library to decode Manny Sanguillén's Pittsburgh Pirates' card to find another bank account in Panama. She obtains durable power of attorney and begins a whirlwind trek to recover her husband's money. After Panama, she visits the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, recovering tens of thousands of dollars from each account. In Germany, she closes Don Mueller's account from Berliner Bank, but the cashier only hands her only 750 DM. He explains that 74,000DM worth of cashier's checks have been paid out to a company called EDK Technik in the former East Berlin. At EDK Technik, a manager informs Bessie that they make ink for ball point pens.
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