Details

Release year: 1998

Storyline

Two bad singers are mistaken for top safe-crackers at a bar; a gangster boss orders them to break into three safes or else.

Top credits

Directors

John Hamburg

Writers

John Hamburg

Cast

Sam Rockwell — Sam
Steve Zahn — Eddie
Michael Lerner — Big Fat Bernie Gayle
Paul Giamatti — Veal Chop

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Did you know

• Director John Hamburg and actor Michael Showalter were college roommates.

• The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Sam Rockwell; and three Oscar nominees: Paul Giamatti, Michael Lerner and Mark Ruffalo.

• Many of the actors in this movie went on to portray animals, with considerable overlap in the species. Sam Rockwell and Paul Giamatti both played rodents in G-Force (2009) and Ernest & Celestine (2012) respectively. Rockwell portrayed a primate in The One and Only Ivan (2020), as did Steve Zahn in War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). Canines were voiced by Mark Ruffalo in Little Demon (2022) and by Rockwell in both IF (2024) and The Bad Guys (2022). And finally, whereas Zahn portrayed a pig in Chicken Little (2005), Giamatti played the memorably nicknamed 'Pig Vomit' in Private Parts (1997).