ActorChristina Cabot, Rory Cochrane, Vince Vaughn, Julia Ormond, Ed Harris, Wallace Shawn
Film/TV TitlePrime Gig
DirectorGregory Mosher
LanguageEnglish
Run Time93 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2002
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Trailer
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
ComposerBill Coleman
Additional InformationGiven a telephone, small-time scam artist Pendleton Wise, also known as Penny (Vince Vaughn), can talk people into almost anything. But as he whiles away his time in a small office, selling fake travel packages to the unsuspecting public, Penny dreams of something bigger, of the prime gig. His ship finally comes in, in the form of a sexy young woman named Caitlin (Julia Ormond), who spots Penny's talent and invites him to join a project led by the legendary con man Kelly Grant (Ed Harris). Fresh out of prison, Grant is operating in top secrecy. He claims to have found a mine which contains $30 million in gold; if his telemarketers can just raise two and a half million to mine it, the payoff will be huge for everyone.<BR>Penny enthusiastically signs on; he's playing with the big boys now, and as they've promised, the dough is soon rolling in. Within just a couple of weeks, his bank account contains almost a hundred thousand dollars. But trouble ensues after he and Grant become rivals for Caitlin's affections, and Penny loses sight of rule