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Simpatico (1999) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Dec 15, 1999
• UK: 28 Jan 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 1, 2000
Official Website:
Simpatico Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some strong sexuality, and for language.
Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes
Country UK, France, USA
Studio Canal Plus, Emotion Pictures
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• Simpatico (1999)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy, Blackmail, Love Triangle, Scams And Cons, Suspense, Betrayal, Law, Psychodrama, Revenge
Tagline: How much can three friends share?
Plot: The story of three old friends, Lyle, Vinnie, and Rosie (Bridges, Nolte, and Stone), whose lives have unfolded very differently. Lyle has married Rosie and become a successful horse breeder in Kentucky, and Vinnie is a down-on-his-luck California barfly with no real options. Thirty years earlier, when the pair were into fixing races -- and Vinnie was dating Rosie -- Lyle was responsible for unfairly ruining the career of Mr. Simms (Finney). Vinnie has kept the negatives and pictures from the set-up (a graphic hotel encounter with none other than Rosie) and has used this as bait for Lyle, who has financially supported him for years in exchange for Vinnie's silence. Vinnie naively believes that the only way to redeem himself and conquer his inner demons is by blackmailing Lyle and clearing Mr. Simms' name, while winning back Rosie in the process. After Vinnie convinces Lyle into flying out to California, he leaves him behind with his girlfriend Cecilia (Keener), and flies to Kentucky to track down Mr. Simms. Upon confronting Simms, who is now operating under a different name, he discovers that not everyone holds grudges from the past. Simms wants nothing to do with Vinnie's schemes, nor is Rosie interested in his love. He dejectedly returns to California only to find that Lyle has
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Sam Shepard
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