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Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's remarriage. Michael had fled his hometown due to gambling debts and had left his wife Rachel to deal with the mess he created. He now attempts to renew his relationships with his family, his friends – and his enemies. The prodigal son obtains a
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job working for his mother's new husband as an armored car driver but when he is caught with Rachel by her hoodlum boyfriend, Dundee, he ends up concocting a plan to steal a payroll being transported by the armored car company to get out of his predicament.
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critics had mixed reactions to the film. Joe Brown had praised the film, calling it: "Downbeat, laconically funny, arty (maybe a touch too arty), it's simmering, smoldering lowlife fun, like a good episode of
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praised film's director by calling him a "talent", but added: "he still hasn't found his groove. He seems to be searching for the project that will be a match for his talents. He needs to keep looking".
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said: "Steven Soderbergh attempts to navigate a tense story of a criminal heist into the uncustomarily deep waters of emotional, psychological and philosophical exploration in
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without the self-conscious weirdness". Meanwhile, Rita Kempley criticized the film, writing: "As tales of sex and sinfulness go, Soderbergh's fourth film doesn't deliver".
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lacks is the kind of emotional connection that the best film noirs have. Instead of involving, this film is distancing, too given to admiring its own shiny surface".
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may turn out to have been more of a stylistic adventure for the director than for an audience".
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put her distaste in the film simply: "Too chaotic to work as a thriller".
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An identical observation of the film was made by Steven Winn of the
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Christopher K. Philippo as ember clubgoer (uncredited)
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Underneath (film)

Steven Soderbergh
Sam Lowry
Daniel Fuchs
Peter Gallagher
Alison Elliott
William Fichtner
Joe Don Baker
Paul Dooley
Shelley Duvall
Elisabeth Shue
Elliot Davis
Cliff Martinez
Gramercy Pictures
crime film
Steven Soderbergh
Daniel Fuchs
Peter Gallagher
Alison Elliott
remake
1949 film
Daniel Fuchs
film noir
surprise ending
Peter Gallagher
Alison Elliott
William Fichtner
Joe Don Baker
Paul Dooley

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