Safe Men
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Cover from the Thai VHS of Safe Men.
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| Directed by | John Hamburg |
| Produced by | Ellen Bronfman |
| Written by | John Hamburg |
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| Music by | Theodore Shapiro |
| Cinematography | Michael Barrett |
| Edited by | Suzanne Pillsbury M. Scott Smith |
| Distributed by | October Films |
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Release date
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August 7, 1998 (U.S.) |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $45,724 |
Safe Men is a 1998 American criminal comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg (in his directorial debut), and stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers, and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti).
Hamburg later wrote screenplays for a few films, such as Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Along Came Polly and I Love You, Man, which he also directed.
In August 1998, The New York Times called it a "low-energy comedy with sufficient signs of willingness to stray off the beaten track to indicate that somewhere down the line its writer and director, John Hamburg, will create something far better."Roger Ebert gave the film 
(one star out of four), saying it "whirls wildly from one bright idea to the next, trying to find a combo that will hold the movie together. No luck."Mick LaSalle gave it "There's no dramatic urgency, no distinct point of view, no question of plot to keep an audience interested. All Safe Men has is the charm of the actors and the occasional friskiness of the writing. That's almost enough to keep the picture alive, minute by minute. Alive is not the same as thriving, but it's better than dead.
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