![]() ![]() They lead lives of quiet desperation, grimy and tawdry. And that's a problem, because I found these characters not very sympathetic. There's very little "heart" in this film. These three people are highly manipulative and scheming, on-guard, and mistrustful of each other and the rest of the world. Roy's love interest is Myra (Annette Bening), a shapely, fun loving babe who uses her charms to con rich businessmen. His mom is Lilly (Anjelica Huston) she's a middle-aged lady with white hair she's seductive, cold-blooded, and tough as nails she's been around the block a few times. Roy Dillon (John Cusack), is a trickster, a loner, "on the grift" for the "short con", strictly a nickels and dimes man. And it's the personal relationships among these three criminals, complex, sometimes dark, and almost always motivated by survival, that make this film a pretty good bet. But "The Grifters" has three, all of them petty swindlers, desperate for quick cash or good odds at a "long con". Most films have one, and only one, protagonist around whom the story is told. ![]()
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