GET CARTER (2000)

MORGAN'S RATING

Jack Carter has spent his life collecting for other people -- debts, agendas, retribution. He stands alone and always stands apart. But when his brother is killed in an accident, it takes Carter home...to the family he abandoned, to the debts that were never paid, and a mystery that will take him to the center of his own soul. For Jack, the trip home to Seattle is a second chance to make amends for past mistakes. He re-connects with his brother's wife, Gloria, and her teenage daughter, Doreen, who are both suspicious of his sudden interest. But when he discovers that his brother's death has murder written all over it, his purpose quickly changes from redemption to revenge.

Sylvester Stallone (Jack Carter), Miranda Richardson (Gloria), Rachael Leigh Cook (Doreen), Rhona Mitra (Geraldine), Johnny Strong (Eddie), John C. McGinley (Con McCarty), Alan Cumming (Jeremy Kinnear), Michael Caine (Cliff Brumby), John Cassini (Thorpey), Mickey Rourke (Cyrus Paice), Mark Boone Junior (Jim Davis), Garwin Sanford (Les Fletcher), Darryl Scheelar (Security Guard), John Moore (Priest), Michel Cook (Richard Carter), Yves Cameron (Peter), Alexander Pervakov (Jimmy), Chris Dugan (Bouncer), Michael Rumain (Big Mike), Rob Lee (Simkins), Nathaniel DeVeaux (Vorhees), Riley Cantner (Ball Boy, uncredited), Rydell Danzie (Holiday Shopper, uncredited), Carrie Fleming (Roommate, uncredited), Saskia Gould (Girlfriend, voice), David Lea (Villian, uncredited), Gretchen Mol (Audrey, uncredited), Tom Sizemore (Fletcher, uncredited), Frank Stallone (Extra at Funeral, uncredited).

THE TRUTH HURTS.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Stephen T. Kay. WRITERS: David McKenna and Stephen T. Kay, and based on the novel "Jack's Return Home" by Ted Lewis. PRODUCERS: Mark Canton, Neil Canton and Elie Samaha. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Kevin King. CO-PRODUCERS: Dawn Miller, James A. Holt and John Goldstone. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ashok Amritraj, Steve Bing, Don Carmody, Bill Gerber, Arthur Silver and Andrew Stevens. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Tyler Bates. DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

FACTS

QUOTES

RELEASE DATE: October 6th, 2000 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $6.6 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $14.9 million (USA) BUDGET: $40 million (USA) SHOOTING DATES: October 1999 -- February 2000 - Michael Caine, who plays Cliff Bumby in this film, played Jack Carter in the original Get Carter (1971). - When Doreen asks Carter why he went away for so long, Carter responds: "That's a long story." Doreen replies, "It's a long ride back." These lines were also spoken in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) when Rambo is speaking with his Vietnamese insider. - Nominated for two 2001 Razzie Awards for Worst Actor and Worst Remake or Sequel. This film also marks Stallone's 25th Razzie nomination.

Gloria Carter: What did you expect, to come in here and fix everything? You don't fix things, Jack. You break things.

Con McCarty: Take care of the business, or the business will take care of you.

Doreen Carter: Have you ever been to prison? [Jack doesn't respond.] For how long? Jack Carter: How about this weather?

Jack Carter: My name is Jack Carter, and you don't want to know me.

Doreen Carter: You are so freaky! Jack Carter: Oh, well, we're all a little freaky, Doreen. It's the straight ones you've got to worry about.

Jeffrey Kinnear: I'm a fucking Harvard graduate, I don't do porn!

Jack Carter: Nobody likes the list guy.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"Maybe it's all the rain and leaden skies, but instead of conjuring up the rueful mood it's after, the film mostly just plays dark, wet, and heavy." -- Jay Carr, Boston Globe

"The movie around Stallone is fairly dreadful, so overly stylized and poorly written that it's always a struggle to stay oriented." -- William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"The melodrama meanders, entertaining only when the star is having his way with an amusing array of adversaries." -- Mike Clark, USA Today

"It's not a terrible movie, and Stallone has appeared in far worse. It's just that, although diverting, it's too routine for its own good." -- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"The result is Get Carter for dummies, the biggest ones being those who pay to see it. It's also an incoherent, irredeemable mess." -- Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune

"The flash cannot make up for the dullness of the script...and Stallone's emotional immobility," -- Sean Means, Film.Com

"Stallone's saddled with a humorless story that bogs down into leaden melodrama early on and is tarted up with 21st-century bells and whistles like Internet porn and mysterious CD-ROMs." -- Tor Thorsen, Reel.Com

"Routine crime drama, enlivened by high-powered car chases but burdened by show-off visual gimmicks." -- Leonard Maltin