The Grifters is a movie directed by Stephen Frears in 1990 and based on the book of the same name by Jim Thompson, first published in 1963. The movie features Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, John Cusack, Pat Hingle, Henry Jones, J.T. Walsh, and others.
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Storyline
Lilly Dillon is a veteran con artist. She works for Bobo Justus, a mob bookmaker, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years.
Movie vs Book
Year
1990
Minutes
110
Movie Rate
6.90
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Grifters
Director: Stephen Frears
Country: USA
Year: 1990
Length: 1h50m
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Year
1963
Pages
224
Book Rate
7.72
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Book
The Grifters
Author: Jim Thompson
Country: USA
First published in: 1963
Length: 224 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one.”
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