Rat Race (film)

Paramount Pictures USA

Donald Sinclair John Cleese, the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casinos slot machines, and the winners are gathered together and told thatmillion in cash is hidden in a duffel bag in a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico, 563 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Each team is given a key to the locker and told to race across the desert to the train station and claim the money. Unbeknownst to the competitors, Sinclairs wealthy patrons are placing bets on who will win.Among the racers are scheming siblings Duane Seth Green and Blaine Cody Vince Vieluf, businesswoman Merrill Jennings Lanai Chapman and her estranged mother Vera Whoopi Goldberg, disgraced American football referee Owen Templeton Cuba Gooding, Jr., the Pear family led by opportunistic father Randy Jon Lovitz, eccentric Italian tourist Enrico Pollini Rowan Atkinson, and nononsense Nick Schaffer Breckin Meyer. ........

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