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'''''Out of Sight''''' was a ] movie directed by ]. {{Short description|1998 US crime comedy film by Steven Soderbergh}}
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It was the first of several collaborations with ]. The film was released on ] ].
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| released = {{Film date|1998|06|26}}
| runtime = 123 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 122:45--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/out-sight-1970-6 | title=''OUT OF SIGHT'' (15) | work=] | date=July 14, 1998 | access-date=January 27, 2016 | archive-date=February 2, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202110741/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/out-sight-1970-6 | url-status=live }}</ref>
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $48 million
| gross = $77.7 million<ref name="boxoffice"/>
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'''''Out of Sight''''' is a 1998 American ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/out-of-sight-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmjq0oty|title=Out of Sight|website=]}}</ref> directed by ] and written by ], ] from ]'s ]. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor ], it was released on June 26, 1998.


Other cast members are ], ], ] and ] as well as Soderbergh regulars ], ] and ]. There is a cameo by ] at the very end of the movie. The film stars Clooney and ], co-starring ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. There are also special appearances by ], briefly reprising his role as Ray Nicolette from ]'s '']'' the previous year, and ].


The film received ] nominations for ] and ]. It won the ] for ] and the ] awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film led to a short-lived spin-off television series in 2003 titled '']'' starring ], who would reprise her role from the series in a 2012 ] ] of ''].'' ] reprised his role as Raymond Cruz from the film in the 2023 sequel ] '']''.
Based on the novel of the same name by ], ''Out of Sight'' is regarded as Soderbergh's comeback movie after several critically acclaimed but financially rather unsatifying movies. It was nominated for two ] (adapted ] and ]) and a large number of other prizes. It won the ] for best movie and the ] awards for best film, screenplay, and ]. A modest success as a film, it led to a spinoff tv series ] and has achieved a small ].


==Plot==
The story revolves around the relationship of a serial bank robber Jack Foley (Clooney) with a ] ] (Lopez), who are forced to share her car trunk during the bank robber's escape from a Florida prison. She chases Jack while he and his friends, Buddy (Rhames) and Glenn (Steve Zahn), work their way north to Detroit to pay a visit with shady businessman Ripley (Albert Brooks) who foolishly bragged in the prison they shared years earlier about having diamonds stashed at his Detroit mansion. Whether Sisco is chasing Foley to arrest him or spend a night with him adds to 'the fun' Foley thinks they are having.
''The movie intercuts between flashbacks and the present day. This plot summary follows the true chronology.''


Career ] Jack Foley is incarcerated at ] in California along with his friend and accomplice Buddy, after Buddy's sister snitches on them before a heist. While at Lompoc, Foley meets Glenn—a nervous petty criminal who always wears sunglasses, even at night—as well as Richard Ripley, a wealthy ] from ]. Foley saves Ripley from being extorted by boxer Maurice "Snoopy" Miller, leading Ripley to promise Foley a job on the outside. He also brags about a cache of ] hidden at his home.
== External links ==
*{{imdb title|id=0120780|title=Out of Sight}}


After his release, Foley turns up at Ripley's office but is only offered a menial security guard position. He confronts Ripley to complain, but Ripley only expresses disdain for Foley's criminal past and throws him out of the building. As Foley walks away he notices a bank across the street, impulsively (and unsuccessfully) robs it, and is sent to ] in Florida.
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At Glades, he deduces that fellow inmate Chino is orchestrating a breakout and plans to tag along. Foley calls his ex-wife Adele, an out-of-work ], to notify Buddy and Glenn to assist. However, on the night of the breakout ] Karen Sisco arrives at the prison at the same time as Buddy, spots the men tunneling outside, and alerts the guards. In the confusion, Foley exits the tunnel in a guard's uniform and overpowers her. The men steal her car, and Foley forces her to hide with him in the trunk while Buddy drives. They meet Glenn to switch cars, but Sisco recognizes him from a previous prisoner transport job and convinces him to drive off with her to avoid being arrested again for assisting a fugitive. He later panics, crashes the car, and flees, while she is taken to hospital. Foley and Buddy make their own way to ].
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Sisco has a dream where she tracks Foley down, but instead of arresting him they have sex. Determined to join the task force hunting the fugitives, she independently questions Adele and happens to arrest Chino, who arrives at her apartment seeking revenge on Foley. This earns her a place on the task force, but the lead agent forces her to wait in the lobby while they raid Buddy's hotel room. She and Foley spot each other as he and Buddy escape via the basement garage; he waves at her, and she lets them go without alerting the other agents.
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The men head to Detroit, planning to break into Ripley's house and steal the diamonds. However, Miller is already putting his own burglary team together: his brother-in-law Kenneth, henchman White Boy Bob, and a reluctant Glenn, whom Miller first forces to help kill a rival drug dealer. Foley and Buddy meet with Miller and agree to team up on the robbery. Meanwhile Sisco, on their trail, questions Miller's wife Moselle, and defends herself when Kenneth attempts to assault her. Foley surprises Sisco at her hotel's bar, and they spend a romantic night together.

Glenn gets cold feet and runs into Sisco, who lets him escape, and she continues to tail Foley. The thieves break into Ripley's mansion, threaten his housekeeper Midge, and struggle to shoot open the safe upstairs. Meanwhile, Foley and Buddy find Ripley hiding in his study, and the diamonds hidden in his fish tank. Ripley, in love with Midge, refuses to leave without her and is captured by Miller.

Unwilling to leave Midge to be raped by Miller and his associates, Foley gives Buddy the diamonds and goes back inside. He shoots Kenneth in bed, then is held at gunpoint by White Boy Bob, who trips on the stairs and accidentally shoots himself in the head. Sisco arrives and shoots Miller in self-defense. Unwilling to return to prison, Foley confronts Sisco with an empty gun, imploring her to kill him. Sisco instead shoots him in the leg and arrests him.

In the police van outside Foley meets another detainee, Hejira Henry, who claims to have escaped from prison nine times. Realizing that Sisco arranged for them to meet and go back to Glades together, Foley smiles knowingly as the van leaves for Florida.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* ] as Jack Foley
* ] as Karen Sisco
* ] as Buddy Bragg
* ] as Maurice "Snoopy" Miller
* ] as Glenn Michaels
* ] as Richard "Dick The Ripper" Ripley
* ] as Marshall Sisco
* ] as Jose "Chino" Chirino
* ] as Kenneth
* ] as Midge
* ] as White Boy Bob
* ] as Adele Delisi
* ] as Moselle Miller
* ] as Raymond Cruz
* ] as Aurelio "Lulu" Linares
* ] as Daniel Burdon
* ] as Ray Nicolette (''uncredited'')
* ] as Hejira Henry (''uncredited'')
* ] as Old Elevator Lady
}}

==Production==
===Development===
The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the '']'' of a beautiful young female ] standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer ] bought the rights to the book after his success with the ] of Leonard's novel '']''. Steven Soderbergh had made two films for ] when executive ] offered him ''Out of Sight'' with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, "These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention."<ref name= "Jones, Belinda">{{cite news | last = Jones | first = Belinda | title = Rockumentaries... | work = ] | date = January 1999 }}</ref>

===Casting===
] was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, "What happened was I spent some time with and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy."<ref name= "Showbiz">{{cite news | title = Steven Soderbergh Interview | work = Mr. Showbiz | year = 1998 }}</ref>

The character of Foley appealed to Clooney, who as a boy had considered as heroes the bank robbers in movies, citing "the ] and the ], ] and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"<ref name= "Decha, Max">{{cite news | last = Decha | first = Max | title = America's Most Wanted | work = ] | pages = 52 | date = December 1998 }}</ref>

Soderbergh cites ]'s 1973 film '']'' as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."<ref name= "Showbiz"/>

] and ] were considered for the part of Ripley before ] was cast.

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel '']'', which was being filmed as '']'' when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on ''Out of Sight''. After ] was cast as the detective Nicolette in ''Jackie Brown'', Universal subsequently cast him for a cameo in the same role in ''Out of Sight''. While ] owned the rights to the character because ''Jackie Brown'' went into production first, director ] felt it was imperative that Miramax not charge Universal for using the character, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax receiving financial compensation. Nicolette appears in only one brief scene, whereas the character is a much more substantial element of Jackie Brown.

===Music===
] ] was originally hired to write a few sections of the film's theme music. Soderbergh liked what he did so much that he had Holmes score the rest of the film. Holmes spent six weeks working 12- to 17-hour days to finish the score in time for the film's release. He drew upon several influences, including ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name= "Bautz">{{cite magazine | last = Bautz | first = Mark | title = ''Sight'' and Sound | magazine = ] | date = June 25, 1998 | url = https://ew.com/article/1998/06/25/sight-and-sound/ | access-date = 2009-05-23 | archive-date = 2011-05-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514095608/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,83568,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

==Release==
''Out of Sight'' was released on June 26, 1998, in 2,106 theaters and grossed ] 12 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $37.5 million domestically and $40.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $77.7 million.<ref name="boxoffice">{{cite news| title =''Out of Sight''| work =Box Office| url =http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/out-of-sight-1998?q=Out%20of%20Sight| access-date =2008-05-06| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140202175812/http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/out-of-sight-1998?q=Out%20of%20Sight| archive-date =2014-02-02}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
''Out of Sight'' received critical acclaim. On ], the film has a 94% approval rating, based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Steven Soderbergh's intelligently crafted adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel is witty, sexy, surprisingly entertaining, and a star-making turn for George Clooney."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|id=1083436-1083436-out_of_sight|title=Out of Sight}}</ref> On ], the film has a score of 84 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{Metacritic film}}</ref>

Film critic ] gave the film three and a half out of four stars and praised Clooney's performance, stating: "Clooney has never been better. A lot of actors who are handsome when young need to put on some miles before the full flavor emerges ... Here Clooney at last looks like a big screen star; the good-looking leading man from television is over with."<ref name="ebert">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=June 19, 1998 |title=''Out of Sight'' |work=] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/out-of-sight-1998 |access-date=2023-01-06}}</ref> ] of '']'' praised Lopez's performance, writing, "Ms. Lopez has her best movie role thus far, and she brings it both seductiveness and grit; if it was hard to imagine a hard-working, pistol-packing bombshell on the page, it couldn't be easier here."<ref name= "maslin">{{cite news | last = Maslin | first = Janet | title = A Thief, a Marshal, an Item | work = ] | date = June 26, 1998 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/062698sight-film-review.html | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> ], in his review for '']'', wrote, "For once in a mainstream production, the narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric. They don't make movies like this anymore, in this overcalculated and overtested era."<ref name= "sarris">{{cite news | last = Sarris | first = Andrew | title = Sleeping With the Enemy … Of Course, the Enemy Is Jennifer Lopez | work = ] | date = June 28, 1998 | url = http://www.observer.com/node/40697 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100107053421/http://www.observer.com/node/40697 | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 7, 2010 | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> In his review for the '']'', Kenneth Turan wrote, "As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill. Making adroit use of complex flashbacks, freeze frames and other stylistic flourishes, he's managed to put his personal stamp on the film while staying faithful to the irreplaceable spirit of the original."<ref name="turan">{{cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |title=''Out of Sight'' |work=] |date=June 26, 1998 |url=http://suprememale.tk/installing-the-bad-boy-mindset/,0,6661507.story |access-date=2009-01-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://suprememale.tk/installing-the-bad-boy-mindset/ |archive-date=May 24, 2006 }}</ref>

'']'' gave the film a "B+" rating and ] wrote, "This is Clooney's wiliest, most complex star turn yet. It helps that he's lost the Beverly Hills Caesar cut (he's actually more handsome with his hair swept back), and his performance is slyly two-tiered: Foley is all charming moxie on the surface, a bit clueless underneath."<ref name= "gleiberman">{{cite magazine | last = Gleiberman | first = Owen | title = ''Out of Sight'' | magazine = ] | date = June 26, 1998 | url = https://ew.com/article/1998/06/26/out-sight/ | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> ], in his review for '']'', wrote, "What makes this movie work is the kind of cool that made '']'' go so nicely: an understanding that life's little adventures rarely come in neat three-act packages, the way most movies now do, and the unruffled presentation of outrageously twisted dialogue, characters and situations as if they were the most natural things in the world."<ref name= "schickel">{{cite magazine | last = Schickel | first = Richard | title = ''Out of Sight'' | magazine = ] | date = July 6, 1998 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988686,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081015163405/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988686,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 15, 2008 | access-date = 2009-01-23 }}</ref> In her review for the '']'', ] wrote, "This isn't a profound film, or even an important one, but then it isn't trying to be; it's so diverting and so full of small, satisfying pleasures, you don't realize how good it is until after it's over."<ref name= "dargis">{{cite news | last = Dargis | first = Manohla | title = With A Bullet | work = ] | date = June 24, 1998 | url = http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/with-a-bullet/7350/ | access-date = 2008-05-06 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Recipient(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/71st-winners.html |title=The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners |access-date=19 November 2011 |work=Oscars.org}}</ref>
| ]
| ]
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| ]
| ]
| {{nom}}
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| ]s
| Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role
| ]
| {{nom}}
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| ]
| ]
| Anne V. Coates
| {{nom}}
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| ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castingsociety.com/awards/artios/1999 |title=Nominees/Winners |publisher=] |accessdate= July 10, 2019}}</ref>
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| Francine Maisler
| {{nom}}
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| Awards Circuit Community Awards
| Best Adapted Screenplay
| Scott Frank
| {{nom}}
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| rowspan="4"| ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1990s/ |title=BSFC Winners: 1990s |website=] |date=27 July 2018 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| ]
| {{won}}
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| ]
| ]
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
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| ]
| ]
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
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| ]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
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| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1998.php |title=The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1998 |publisher=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212034409/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1998.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2008}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| ]
| {{nom}}
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| ]
| colspan="2"| ]
| {{nom}}
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| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-motion-picture/ |title=Category List – Best Motion Picture |website=] |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
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| Scott Frank {{small|(screenplay)}}; ] {{small|(novel)}}
| {{won}}
|-
| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/awards99/bfilm.html |title=Best Actress |work=] |year=1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819093250/http://www.empireonline.co.uk/features/awards99/bactress.html |archive-date=August 19, 2000 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="awards2">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024094617/http://www.hollywoodactress.org/Jennifer-Lopez-Profile.php|archive-date=October 24, 2009|url=http://www.hollywoodactress.org/Jennifer-Lopez-Profile.php |title=Jennifer Lopez Profile, Professional Details, Awards and Achievements |publisher=Hollywood Actress|date=July 24, 1969 |access-date=April 9, 2012}}</ref>
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|Jennifer Lopez
|{{nom}}
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| {{won}}
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| ]
| Jennifer Lopez
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| George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |website=] |date=19 December 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| ]
| {{won}}
|-
| ]
| Steven Soderbergh
| {{won}}
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| ]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| New York Latin ACE Awards<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rivas |first1=Josue R. |title=Y los nominados para los premios ACE son... |newspaper=] |date=January 15, 1999 |page=33 |id={{ProQuest|368219135}}}}</ref>
| Best Actress
| Jennifer Lopez
| {{nom}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-awards/3rd-annual-film-awards-1998/ |title=3rd Annual Film Awards (1998) |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ofcs.org/awards/1998-awards-2nd-annual/ |title=1998 Awards (2nd Annual) |website=] |date=3 January 2012 |access-date=November 21, 2021}}</ref>
| ]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| ]
| Anne V. Coates
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sefca.net/winners#/1998 |title=1998 SEFA Awards |website=sefca.net |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| Best Picture
| {{draw|8th Place}}
|-
| Best Adapted Screenplay
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|-
| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://torontofilmcritics.com/past-award-winners/ |title=TFCA Past Award Winners |website=] |date=May 29, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2021}}</ref>
| ]
| Steven Soderbergh
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| ]
| colspan="2"| Best Foreign Film
| {{draw|4th Place}}
|-
| ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2 |title=WGA Awards: Previous Nominees and Winners |website=] |year=1999 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|WGA|1999}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307145015/http://awards.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| ]
| Scott Frank
| {{won}}
|}

'''] Lists'''
* ] – Nominated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills Nominees|access-date=2011-07-01|archive-date=2011-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706070532/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ] – Nominated Gangster Film

'''Other Honors'''
* '']'' voted it as the sexiest film ever on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" poll<ref name= "EWSex">{{cite magazine | title = 50 Sexiest Movies Ever | magazine = ] | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20241796_24,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081204063201/http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20241796_24,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 4, 2008 | access-date = 2009-01-22 }}</ref> and ranked it #9 on their Top 25 Modern Romances list.<ref name= "TopRomances">{{cite magazine | title = Top 25 Modern Romances | magazine = ] | date = February 8, 2002 | url = https://ew.com/article/2002/02/08/top-25-modern-romances/ | access-date = 2009-02-26 | archive-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181014015822/https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,252562_2,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
* In 2012, the ] listed ''Out of Sight'' as the 52nd best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 75 Best Edited Films |journal=Editors Guild Magazine |date=May 2012 |volume=1 |issue=3 |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |access-date=2017-04-21 |archive-date=2015-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101140/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Impact and legacy===
In later years, Soderbergh would see the film as "a very conscious decision on my part to try and climb my way out of the arthouse ghetto which can be as much of a trap as making blockbuster films." He had just turned down directing '']'', written by ], to direct ''Out of Sight''. "And I was very aware that at that point in my career, half the business was off limits to me."<ref name= "Andrew, Geoff">{{cite news | last = Andrew | first = Geoff | title = Again, with 20% more existential grief | work = ] | date = February 13, 2003 | url = http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,897475,00.html | access-date = 2008-05-06 }}</ref> Clooney said, "''Out of Sight'' was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I'd read where I just went, 'That's it.' And even though it didn't do really well box office-wise - we sort of tanked again - it was a really good film."<ref name= "Andrew, Geoff"/> Lopez said: "It kind of became a cult classic. It didn't get as much notice when it first came out at the box office but now, years later, so many people told me that was their favorite film. It's crazy."<ref>Archived at {{cbignore}} and the {{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLV_5Wu7XA| title = Jennifer Lopez Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Characters {{!}} GQ | website=]| date = 12 December 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==See also==
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==References==
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Latest revision as of 16:48, 13 December 2024

1998 US crime comedy film by Steven Soderbergh For other uses, see Out of Sight (disambiguation).
Out of Sight
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven Soderbergh
Screenplay byScott Frank
Based onOut of Sight
by Elmore Leonard
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyElliot Davis
Edited byAnne V. Coates
Music byDavid Holmes
Production
company		Jersey Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 26, 1998 (1998-06-26)
Running time123 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$48 million
Box office$77.7 million

Out of Sight is a 1998 American action comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor George Clooney, it was released on June 26, 1998.

The film stars Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, co-starring Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Nancy Allen, Steve Zahn, Catherine Keener, and Albert Brooks. There are also special appearances by Michael Keaton, briefly reprising his role as Ray Nicolette from Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown the previous year, and Samuel L. Jackson.

The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. It won the Edgar Award for Best Screenplay and the National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film led to a short-lived spin-off television series in 2003 titled Karen Sisco starring Carla Gugino, who would reprise her role from the series in a 2012 third season episode of Justified. Paul Calderón reprised his role as Raymond Cruz from the film in the 2023 sequel miniseries Justified: City Primeval.

Plot

The movie intercuts between flashbacks and the present day. This plot summary follows the true chronology.

Career bank robber Jack Foley is incarcerated at Lompoc Penitentiary in California along with his friend and accomplice Buddy, after Buddy's sister snitches on them before a heist. While at Lompoc, Foley meets Glenn—a nervous petty criminal who always wears sunglasses, even at night—as well as Richard Ripley, a wealthy white collar criminal from Detroit. Foley saves Ripley from being extorted by boxer Maurice "Snoopy" Miller, leading Ripley to promise Foley a job on the outside. He also brags about a cache of uncut diamonds hidden at his home.

After his release, Foley turns up at Ripley's office but is only offered a menial security guard position. He confronts Ripley to complain, but Ripley only expresses disdain for Foley's criminal past and throws him out of the building. As Foley walks away he notices a bank across the street, impulsively (and unsuccessfully) robs it, and is sent to Glades Correctional Institution in Florida.

At Glades, he deduces that fellow inmate Chino is orchestrating a breakout and plans to tag along. Foley calls his ex-wife Adele, an out-of-work magician's assistant, to notify Buddy and Glenn to assist. However, on the night of the breakout U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco arrives at the prison at the same time as Buddy, spots the men tunneling outside, and alerts the guards. In the confusion, Foley exits the tunnel in a guard's uniform and overpowers her. The men steal her car, and Foley forces her to hide with him in the trunk while Buddy drives. They meet Glenn to switch cars, but Sisco recognizes him from a previous prisoner transport job and convinces him to drive off with her to avoid being arrested again for assisting a fugitive. He later panics, crashes the car, and flees, while she is taken to hospital. Foley and Buddy make their own way to Miami.

Sisco has a dream where she tracks Foley down, but instead of arresting him they have sex. Determined to join the task force hunting the fugitives, she independently questions Adele and happens to arrest Chino, who arrives at her apartment seeking revenge on Foley. This earns her a place on the task force, but the lead agent forces her to wait in the lobby while they raid Buddy's hotel room. She and Foley spot each other as he and Buddy escape via the basement garage; he waves at her, and she lets them go without alerting the other agents.

The men head to Detroit, planning to break into Ripley's house and steal the diamonds. However, Miller is already putting his own burglary team together: his brother-in-law Kenneth, henchman White Boy Bob, and a reluctant Glenn, whom Miller first forces to help kill a rival drug dealer. Foley and Buddy meet with Miller and agree to team up on the robbery. Meanwhile Sisco, on their trail, questions Miller's wife Moselle, and defends herself when Kenneth attempts to assault her. Foley surprises Sisco at her hotel's bar, and they spend a romantic night together.

Glenn gets cold feet and runs into Sisco, who lets him escape, and she continues to tail Foley. The thieves break into Ripley's mansion, threaten his housekeeper Midge, and struggle to shoot open the safe upstairs. Meanwhile, Foley and Buddy find Ripley hiding in his study, and the diamonds hidden in his fish tank. Ripley, in love with Midge, refuses to leave without her and is captured by Miller.

Unwilling to leave Midge to be raped by Miller and his associates, Foley gives Buddy the diamonds and goes back inside. He shoots Kenneth in bed, then is held at gunpoint by White Boy Bob, who trips on the stairs and accidentally shoots himself in the head. Sisco arrives and shoots Miller in self-defense. Unwilling to return to prison, Foley confronts Sisco with an empty gun, imploring her to kill him. Sisco instead shoots him in the leg and arrests him.

In the police van outside Foley meets another detainee, Hejira Henry, who claims to have escaped from prison nine times. Realizing that Sisco arranged for them to meet and go back to Glades together, Foley smiles knowingly as the van leaves for Florida.

Cast

Production

Development

The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer Danny DeVito bought the rights to the book after his success with the 1995 film adaptation of Leonard's novel Get Shorty. Steven Soderbergh had made two films for Universal Pictures when executive Casey Silver offered him Out of Sight with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, "These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention."

Casting

Sandra Bullock was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, "What happened was I spent some time with and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy."

The character of Foley appealed to Clooney, who as a boy had considered as heroes the bank robbers in movies, citing "the Cagneys and the Bogarts, Steve McQueen and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"

Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film Don't Look Now as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."

Danny DeVito and Garry Shandling were considered for the part of Ripley before Albert Brooks was cast.

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel Rum Punch, which was being filmed as Jackie Brown when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on Out of Sight. After Michael Keaton was cast as the detective Nicolette in Jackie Brown, Universal subsequently cast him for a cameo in the same role in Out of Sight. While Miramax Films owned the rights to the character because Jackie Brown went into production first, director Quentin Tarantino felt it was imperative that Miramax not charge Universal for using the character, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax receiving financial compensation. Nicolette appears in only one brief scene, whereas the character is a much more substantial element of Jackie Brown.

Music

DJ David Holmes was originally hired to write a few sections of the film's theme music. Soderbergh liked what he did so much that he had Holmes score the rest of the film. Holmes spent six weeks working 12- to 17-hour days to finish the score in time for the film's release. He drew upon several influences, including Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Dean Martin, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, and Willie Bobo.

Release

Out of Sight was released on June 26, 1998, in 2,106 theaters and grossed USD 12 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $37.5 million domestically and $40.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $77.7 million.

Critical reception

Out of Sight received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% approval rating, based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Steven Soderbergh's intelligently crafted adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel is witty, sexy, surprisingly entertaining, and a star-making turn for George Clooney." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 84 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars and praised Clooney's performance, stating: "Clooney has never been better. A lot of actors who are handsome when young need to put on some miles before the full flavor emerges ... Here Clooney at last looks like a big screen star; the good-looking leading man from television is over with." Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Lopez's performance, writing, "Ms. Lopez has her best movie role thus far, and she brings it both seductiveness and grit; if it was hard to imagine a hard-working, pistol-packing bombshell on the page, it couldn't be easier here." Andrew Sarris, in his review for The New York Observer, wrote, "For once in a mainstream production, the narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric. They don't make movies like this anymore, in this overcalculated and overtested era." In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, "As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill. Making adroit use of complex flashbacks, freeze frames and other stylistic flourishes, he's managed to put his personal stamp on the film while staying faithful to the irreplaceable spirit of the original."

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "This is Clooney's wiliest, most complex star turn yet. It helps that he's lost the Beverly Hills Caesar cut (he's actually more handsome with his hair swept back), and his performance is slyly two-tiered: Foley is all charming moxie on the surface, a bit clueless underneath." Richard Schickel, in his review for Time, wrote, "What makes this movie work is the kind of cool that made Get Shorty go so nicely: an understanding that life's little adventures rarely come in neat three-act packages, the way most movies now do, and the unruffled presentation of outrageously twisted dialogue, characters and situations as if they were the most natural things in the world." In her review for the L.A. Weekly, Manohla Dargis wrote, "This isn't a profound film, or even an important one, but then it isn't trying to be; it's so diverting and so full of small, satisfying pleasures, you don't realize how good it is until after it's over."

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result
Academy Awards Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Scott Frank Nominated
Best Film Editing Anne V. Coates Nominated
ALMA Awards Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role Jennifer Lopez Nominated
American Cinema Editors Awards Best Edited Feature Film Anne V. Coates Nominated
Artios Awards Best Casting for Feature Film – Drama Francine Maisler Nominated
Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank Nominated
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Film Won
Best Director Steven Soderbergh 2nd Place
Best Actor George Clooney 2nd Place
Best Screenplay Scott Frank Won
Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Picture Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Nominated
Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Motion Picture Screenplay Scott Frank (screenplay); Elmore Leonard (novel) Won
Empire Awards Best Actress Jennifer Lopez Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards Best Music Won
MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Jennifer Lopez Nominated
Best Kiss George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez Nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Film Won
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Won
Best Screenplay Scott Frank Won
New York Latin ACE Awards Best Actress Jennifer Lopez Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium Scott Frank Won
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank Won
Best Editing Anne V. Coates Nominated
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture 8th Place
Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank Won
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Steven Soderbergh Runner-up
Turkish Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film 4th Place
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay – Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Scott Frank Won

American Film Institute Lists

Other Honors

  • Entertainment Weekly voted it as the sexiest film ever on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" poll and ranked it #9 on their Top 25 Modern Romances list.
  • In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild listed Out of Sight as the 52nd best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.

Impact and legacy

In later years, Soderbergh would see the film as "a very conscious decision on my part to try and climb my way out of the arthouse ghetto which can be as much of a trap as making blockbuster films." He had just turned down directing Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman, to direct Out of Sight. "And I was very aware that at that point in my career, half the business was off limits to me." Clooney said, "Out of Sight was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I'd read where I just went, 'That's it.' And even though it didn't do really well box office-wise - we sort of tanked again - it was a really good film." Lopez said: "It kind of became a cult classic. It didn't get as much notice when it first came out at the box office but now, years later, so many people told me that was their favorite film. It's crazy."

See also

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