Scam (film)

Scam
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Written by	Craig Smith
Directed by	John Flynn
Starring	Christopher Walken Lorraine Bracco Miguel Ferrar Martin Donovan
Theme music composer	Stephen Graziano
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	David Lancaster
Cinematography	Ric Waite
Editor(s)	Michael N. Knue
Running time	102 minutes
Distributor	Viacom Enterprises
Release
Original release	May 22, 1993 (1993-05-22)

Scam is a 1993 television film adaptation of crime drama novel by Craig Smith named Ladystinger. It originally aired on Showtime in May 1993.

Plot

Maggie Rohrer (Lorraine Bracco) is a seductive con-artist scamming the rich in Miami Beach. When she picks the wrong mark, Jack Shanks (Christopher Walken), he blackmails her into working with him on the ultimate scam in Jamaica. He wants to use her talents in a much bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up. When the scam turns deadly, murder and double-cross become the only way to finish their dangerous game.

DVD release

It is unknown if CBS Home Entertainment will release the film onto DVD or Blu-ray.

Cast

Production

John Flynn says he was offered the film by Showtime on the basis of his work for them on Nails (1992). The movie was shot in Jamaica. Flynn:

It was a privilege to work with Chris Walken. What a fine actor he is. Miguel Ferrer and Martin Donovan are also first-rate talents, but Lorraine Bracco was clinically depressed at the time, having trouble with her boyfriend Edward James Olmos and her ex-husband Harvey Keitel. So Lorraine wasn’t at the top of her game in Scam.^[1]

References

External links

• Scam at the Internet Movie Database