FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Grifters
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer92%as of 2026-01-11
- Rotten Tomatoes average8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic86/100as of 2026-01-11
What it is
The Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening. The film follows a lifelong con artist (Huston) who reunites with her estranged son (Cusack) and, along with his girlfriend (Bening), becomes embroiled in a complex web of criminal activity. The screenplay by Donald E.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime / Thriller / Drama
- Original language
- English
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