Rat Race (2001)

Rat Race (2001)

Release Date: 17 August 2001 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip.MP3.ENG
Language: English
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Jerry Zucker
Company: Paramount Pictures, Alphaville Films, Fireworks Pictures
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Kathy Najimy, Lanai Chapman, Vince Vieluf, Dave Thomas, Wayne Knight, Kathy Bates, Dean Cain
Genre: Adventure | Comedy
Watch: Trailer
Size: 701MB

Plot: Donald Sinclair, the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casino's slot machines, and the winners of them are gathered together and told that two million dollars in cash are hidden in a duffel bag in a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico. They are told it is a no-holds-barred race to get there first and claim the money. Each winner is given a key that will open the locker and they are sent on their way. Sinclair's patrons place bets on who will win the race.

The players alter their modes of transport over the course of the film and encounter different problems along the way:

Con artists Blaine and Duane Cody sabotage an airport radar to keep everyone else from using a plane since they couldn't get tickets. Later on they decide to make a copy of their key to double their chances of winning. However, a locksmith overhears their discussions about their plans and then steals the key for himself. The brothers chase him as he tries to escape in a hot air balloon, and they get the key back and leave the locksmith and a cow to float away dangling from the balloon. The brothers crash into a monster truck rally after being distracted by an attractive woman with many piercings, are almost hit by a truck, and steal one of the trucks to complete the journey.

Merrill Jennings and her long-lost mother, Vera Baker, meet a somewhat eccentric squirrel seller (Kathy Bates) who gives bogus directions that send them careening down a pit in their rented Dodge Intrepid when they refuse to buy a squirrel. After wandering around the desert for a long time, they steal a rocket car which is being used to break the landspeed record and race across the desert at supersonic speed until the car runs out of fuel. The women stumble into a bus of mental patients (being mistaken as such because of their dizziness and babbling about squirrels and rocket car) until they reach Silver City, choking the bus's leader until they get off.

Disgraced football referee Owen Templeton is left stranded in the desert by a vengeful taxi driver after he lost a bet thanks to Owen's mishap involving a coin toss during a pro football match. After a long time stuck in the desert, Owen finds a bus full of women going to an I Love Lucy convention in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and convinces the driver to give him his clothes (making up various excuses about needing them to help his wife give birth) but the bus crashes thanks to an incident involving the cow stuck on the balloon. The women accidentally roll the spare tire away, and Owen reveals he is not a bus driver before fleeing from the women, using a horse to reach Silver City.

The Pear Family, consisting of Randy, his wife Bev, and their children, visit a "Barbie Museum" on the way, actually dedicated to Nazi Klaus Barbie. Their car is damaged by the Codys, so they steal Adolf Hitler's Mercedes-Benz car. Randy insults a group of female bikers, after he burns his middle finger on the car's cigarette lighter, who attack the car and send it crashing into a rally of World War II veterans. Resembling Hitler due to a makeup smudge on his face and having burned his tongue, Randy wanders to a podium and shouts out gibberish, which resembles German at the veterans, and insults them further by giving them the finger while trying to explain what happened. After just barely escaping after one of the veterans tries to shoot him, Randy drugs his family with chocolate milkshakes that are spiked with Sleep-Eaz and loads them into a truck to continue the journey. (wikipedia)