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Box Office: $64,867
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CONSENSUS
Cliched and endlessly self-referential, Who Is Cletis Tout? doesn't add anything original to the crime genre.
CAST & CREW
Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Allen
Directed by Chris Ver Wiel
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SYNOPSIS
While in prison, Trevor Finch (Christian Slater), an ex-convict specializing in identification falsification, meets a magician and jewel thief, Micah (Richard Dreyfuss). Together, they bust out and take on new identities, planning to dig up a pile of diamonds that Micah buried under a tree. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for language, some violence and sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 32 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 26, 2002
Video: Jan 7, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Classics
GENRE
Comedies, Adventure, Romance, Mafia
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Who is Cletis Tout? Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
 "The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago, and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"A smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie."
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
"Perhaps the most annoying thing about Who Is Cletis Tout? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"The real question this movie poses is not 'Who?' but 'Why?'"
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The whole mildly pleasant outing -- the R rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air, but on the inspired performance of Tim Allen."
-- Arthur Salm, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"It won't hold up over the long haul, but in the moment, Finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a Saturday matinee."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD
"Ver Wiel has concocted one of the most elaborately twisted, diverting caper films in years."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Screenwriter Chris ver Weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull, but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"There's a sweetness to it that's disarming and diverting -- mostly thanks to performances of Slater, Richard Dreyfuss as his partner in crime, and Portia Di Rossi as Dreyfuss' daughter."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"Warmed-over Tarantino by way of wannabe Elmore Leonard."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Contrived pastiche of caper clichés."
-- John Dentino, L.A. WEEKLY
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"A fragile framework upon which to hang broad, mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
"A great script brought down by lousy direction. Same guy with both hats. Big mistake."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Mildly entertaining."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing, Who Is Cletis Tout? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche."
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"Ver Wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost, leaving the character of Critical Jim two-dimensional and pointless."
-- Max Messier, FILMCRITIC.COM
"At best, Cletis Tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Topkapi this is not."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"A great idea becomes a not-great movie."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"As self-aware movies go, Who is Cletis Tout? is clever enough, though thin writing proves its undoing."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"Who is the audience for Cletis Tout? Anybody who enjoys quirky, fun, popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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ROTTEN 22%
Avg. Rating: 4.8/10 |
"A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"This charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make Jay and Silent Bob's Excellent Adventure seem understated."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"Charming, if overly complicated..."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"Tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The skills of a calculus major at M.I.T. are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy Who Is Cletis Tout?"
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The result, however well-intentioned, is ironically just the sort of disposable, kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's Hollywood."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"It's just a little too self-satisfied."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"The bland outweighs the nifty, and Cletis Tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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