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A black comedy which follows the effect that a woman called Jewel has on the men she meets. Randy the bartender and Jewel become an item but Jewel becomes increasingly more demanding about things and encourages Randy to commit crimes...

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ProducerMichael Douglas, Allison Lyon Segan

EAN5017239190919

eBay Product ID (ePID)3945933

Product Key Features

ActorLiv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, Reba Mcentire, Michael Douglas, John Goodman

Film/TV TitleOne Night at Mccool's

DirectorHarald Zwart

FormatDVD

Release Year2001

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesTrailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer\Deleted Scenes\Gag Reel\Featurettes - 1. WHERE DID WE SHOOT THAT?\2. HOW DID WE KILL PAUL REISER?\3. CAST READ THROUGH\TESTS\Music Videos\Storyboards

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time89 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

ComposerMarc Shaiman

ReviewsUSA Today - ...[Douglas] may be doing some of the best acting of his career....An enjoyably off-beat exercise..., New York Times - ...The director, Harald Zwart, keeps the energy up....ONE NIGHT AT MCCOOL'S packs a lot into one night..., Movieline - ...Michael Douglas gives a sharp performance..., Total Film - ...A perversely comic take on truth and memory..., Rolling Stone - ...The real fun comes in watching Michael Douglas....He makes you laugh out loud...

Additional InformationThe title refers to the night when three men, Randy (Matt Dillon), his cousin Carl (Paul Reiser) and Detective Dehling (John Goodman), all meet Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) at a bar called McCool's. Actually, they don't so much meet her as fall under her spell when they first lay eyes on her. In her clinging red dress she looks like a cross between a beautiful damsel in distress and the Lady In Red looking for John Dillinger. The story begins with Randy, desperate to be rid of Jewel, hiring a sleazy hitman, played by Michael Douglas in an outre toupee. His story of how Jewel lead him to ruin, filmed in a stylized flashback bathed in blue, is mirrored by Carl talking to his therapist--played with a delicious verve by Reba McEntire, and Detective Dehling talking with a priest; each telling their own stories of obsession with Jewel. Tyler is clearly beautiful, but it's the evil, scheming side of her character--delivered with voluptuous softness and irresistible badness--that makes the men's actions, however ridiculous they become, feel completely believable. Dillon, Goodman, and Reiser are all type cast in their familiar personas, but the story moves quickly, the dialogue doesn't have that forced sitcom feel, and a running gag involving a wooden Indian builds to an amusing pay-off.

Executive ProducerWhitney Green

ScreenwriterStan Seidel

FeaturedReba McEntire

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleOne Night At McCool's

Director of PhotographyKarl Walter Lindenlaub