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Lookin' to Get Out (1982) | User Rating
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Budget USD 17,000,000
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Lorimar Productions, Paramount Pictures
Studio Lorimar Productions, Northstar International Pictures, Paramount, Voight Schaffel
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Other Titles
• Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
• Zwei in der Tinte (1982)
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Genre: Comedy, Scams And Cons, On The Road, Revenge, Gangsters
Plot: In LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT, Hal Ashby, who had directed Jon Voight in COMING HOME, gives him free reign in a script Voight cowrote, although much of it has the feel of spontaneous improvisation on the set, with Voight cracking up and doing odd bits of physical comedy. He stars as Alex Kovac, a charming, happy-go-lucky gambler who’s ten thousand dollars in debt to the mob in New York, leading him to flee to Las Vegas with his adoring but none-too-bright bosom buddy, Jerry (Burt Young). He hopes to win money at blackjack but doesn’t have the stakes. Fate (or movie plotting) lends a hand when they are mistaken for high-roller friends of the hotel manager, Bernie Gold (Richard Bradford), and they are given a free suite and advanced gambling money by the casino. Alex’s ex-girlfriend, Patti (Ann-Margret), who’s now, unknown to him, living in the hotel with Bernie Gold and their daughter, Tosh (Angelina Jolie), spots him in the lobby. But Alex is more interested in a waiter, Smitty (Bert Remsen), whom he remembers as a famous gambler from years ago. He hatches a plot with Smitty to win back the money, ending with an incredibly wild, although realistically staged, blackjack game.
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| Directed by |
Hal Ashby
Being There, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail |
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| Written by |
Jon Voight
Heat, Pearl Harbor, Mission: Impossible |
 | Al Schwartz
Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island, The Red Skelton Show |
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| Cast |
Jon Voight
Heat, Pearl Harbor, Mission: Impossible |
| Ann-Margret
Any Given Sunday, Grumpy Old Men, The Break-Up |
 | Burt Young
Once Upon a Time in America, Rocky, Rocky IV |
 | Bert Remsen
Forces of Nature, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Only the Lonely | Jude Farese
City Heat, Some Kind of Hero, Murder in Texas | | | |
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| Music By |
Miles Goodman
Little Shop of Horrors, What About Bob?, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | |
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