Ocean's Eleven
IMDB 7.5/10 (56,005 votes)
Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Produced by	Jerry Weintraub
Written by	George C. Johnson Jack G. Russell Harry Brown Charles Lederer Ted Griffin
Starring	George Clooney Matt Damon Andy Garcia Brad Pitt Julia Roberts
Music by	David Holmes
Distributed by	Warner Bros
Release date	December 5, 2001
Running time	116 min.
Awards	BMI Film Music Award, David Holmes
Language	English
Budget	$85,000,000
Followed by	Ocean's Twelve
IMDb profile

Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 remake of the 1960 Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven. The 2001 movie was directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts. In 2004, Soderbergh directed an original sequel, Ocean's Twelve. A second sequel is in the works, with the title Ocean's Thirteen, with a proposed release date of June 8, 2007.

It was a box-office and critical success.

Cast

• George Clooney as Danny Ocean
• Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan
• Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell
• Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict
• Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean
• Casey Affleck as Virgil Malloy
• Scott Caan as Turk Malloy
• Shaobo Qin as 'The Amazing' Yen
• Bernie Mac as Frank Catton
• Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr
• Carl Reiner as Saul Bloom
• Eddie Jemison as Livingston Dell
• Elliott Gould as Reuben Tishkoff

Plot

Daniel Ocean (Clooney) recruits a team of specialists to rob three Las Vegas casinos: the Bellagio, The Mirage and the MGM Grand, all of which store their money in a central, high-tech bank vault beneath the Bellagio. The man who owns these casinos, Terry Benedict (Garcia), is dating Danny Ocean's former wife, Tess (Roberts). This will aid his determination to successfully pull off the robbery. With financing and backing from a wealthy ex-casino owner (who was bought out by Benedict), the robbers foil the elaborate security mechanisms to get to the vault with the casino's money (on the night of a big fight, ensuring there's more money in the vault), and escape by disguising themselves as a SWAT team.

Trivia

• The Terry Benedict character bears some resemblance to Steve Wynn, the developer behind the Bellagio and the Mirage. One of Andy Garcia's lines in the movie (as Terry Benedict) reads, "If you should be picked up buying a $100,000 sports car in Newport Beach, I'm going to be extremely disappointed." This is a reference to the real-life 1994 kidnapping of Steve Wynn's daughter, Kevyn Wynn. Ray Cuddy, one of the kidnappers, was caught in Newport Beach a week after the incident trying to buy a Ferrari with cash.

• Other than the lead character, none of the robbers in the remake share names with robbers in the original, although they do exhibit some of their personality quirks.

• The two fighters featured in the boxing match sequence are Wladimir Klitschko and Lennox Lewis.

• At one point, the actors considered for roles in the film included Mike Myers, Ewan McGregor, Sydney Pollack, Warren Beatty, Dennis Franz, Ralph Fiennes, and Michael Douglas. Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bruce Willis,and Alan Arkin were all originally cast in the parts that were eventually played by Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Andy Garcia and Carl Reiner.

• The original film included in the cast Sammy Davis, Jr., and the remake's Don Cheadle did play Davis himself in the 1998 TV movie The Rat Pack, which included a scene of Davis on set for the original movie.

• Five "teen idols" make cameos as themselves during the scene where Rusty teaches them how to play poker: Holly Marie Combs, Topher Grace, Joshua Jackson, Barry Watson, and Shane West.

• Brad Pitt's character is seen eating or drinking something in each of his scenes, except for the one where he and George Clooney are discussing the plans of the vault.

• A "pinch" is stolen, and used to disrupt power in Las Vegas. A Z-pinch however would not have produced the required EMF. A quite different device, the Explosively pumped flux compression generator could have been used. In fact, such a device would permanently destroy all electronic devices within a certain radius, not temporarily.

• The entire concept of a casino needing to house money to cover every chip in play on its floor is in fact false. This is revealed on the DVD audio commentary.

• In the DVD audio commentary Brad Pitt reveals that the wig he used for the doctor disguise was in fact the rehearsal wig used for Austin Powers.

• In the DVD commentary Steven Soderbergh and Ted Griffin acknowledge a certain plot hole: How did the crew get the flyers of the hookers in the vault in the first place?

• Siegfried and Roy have a cameo appearance in the movie.

• Pitt and Roberts also co-starred in The Mexican.

• Henry Silva and Angie Dickinson appear in brief cameos during the boxing sequence in the film. Silva played part of the crew and Dickinson a love interest in the original film, Ocean's Eleven (1960 film).

• The song that plays as Danny is released from prison and continues to play over the main titles is titled "Rodney Yates" and is not featured on the soundtrack. It is however featured on David Holmes' (the score composer) 1997 album Let's Get Killed (which also featured the original version of "Gritty Shaker").

External links

• Official Site

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