Its avilable in video, if you can find it, delightful. zg
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LOOKIN' TO GET OUT
(Dead link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/LookintoGetOut-1012679/about.php)
CAST & CREW
Ann-Margret, Jon Voight, Burt Young
Directed by Hal Ashby
SYNOPSIS
In LOOKIN' TO GET OUT (1982), Hal Ashby, who had directed Jon Voight in COMING HOME, gives him free reign in a script Voight cowrote, although much of it has the feel of spontaneous improvisation on the set, with Voight cracking up and doing odd bits of physical comedy. He stars as Alex Kovac, a charming, happy-go-lucky gambler who's ten thousand dollars in debt to the mob in New York, leading him to flee to Las Vegas with his adoring but none-too-bright bosom buddy, Jerry (Burt Young). He hopes to win money at blackjack but doesn't have the stakes. Alex knows the Vegas scene well enough that they are mistaken for high-roller friends of the hotel manager, Bernie Gold (Richard Bradford), and they are given a free suite and advanced gambling money by the casino. Alex's ex-girlfriend, Patti (Ann-Margret), who's now, unknown to him, living in the hotel with Bernie Gold and their daughter, Tosh (Angelina Jolie), spots him in the lobby. But Alex is more interested in a waiter, Smitty (Bert Remsen), whom he remembers as a famous blackjack card-counter from years ago. He hatches a plot with Smitty to win back the money, ending with an incredibly wild, although realistically staged, blackjack game.
TIDBITS -
Although the film was made in 1980 it wasn't released until 1982.
The Las Vegas scenes were filmed at the MGM Grand Hotel (Bally's).
Angelina Jolie made her first screen appearance in Hal Ashby's 1982 comedy LOOKIN' TO GET OUT, which starred and was coscripted by her father, Jon Voight.
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LOOKIN' TO GET OUT
(Dead link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/LookintoGetOut-1012679/about.php)
CAST & CREW
Ann-Margret, Jon Voight, Burt Young
Directed by Hal Ashby
SYNOPSIS
In LOOKIN' TO GET OUT (1982), Hal Ashby, who had directed Jon Voight in COMING HOME, gives him free reign in a script Voight cowrote, although much of it has the feel of spontaneous improvisation on the set, with Voight cracking up and doing odd bits of physical comedy. He stars as Alex Kovac, a charming, happy-go-lucky gambler who's ten thousand dollars in debt to the mob in New York, leading him to flee to Las Vegas with his adoring but none-too-bright bosom buddy, Jerry (Burt Young). He hopes to win money at blackjack but doesn't have the stakes. Alex knows the Vegas scene well enough that they are mistaken for high-roller friends of the hotel manager, Bernie Gold (Richard Bradford), and they are given a free suite and advanced gambling money by the casino. Alex's ex-girlfriend, Patti (Ann-Margret), who's now, unknown to him, living in the hotel with Bernie Gold and their daughter, Tosh (Angelina Jolie), spots him in the lobby. But Alex is more interested in a waiter, Smitty (Bert Remsen), whom he remembers as a famous blackjack card-counter from years ago. He hatches a plot with Smitty to win back the money, ending with an incredibly wild, although realistically staged, blackjack game.
TIDBITS -
Although the film was made in 1980 it wasn't released until 1982.
The Las Vegas scenes were filmed at the MGM Grand Hotel (Bally's).
Angelina Jolie made her first screen appearance in Hal Ashby's 1982 comedy LOOKIN' TO GET OUT, which starred and was coscripted by her father, Jon Voight.
