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Diamonds (1999)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:9
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Kirk Douglas' flinty performance fails to overshadow an otherwise dull and cliche-ridden affair.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Douglas plays Harry, a one-time prize fighter who embarks on a life-changing road trip with his son Lance (Dan Aykroyd) and teenage grandson (Corbin Allred). Feisty at 80 despite a recent stroke,...
Douglas plays Harry, a one-time prize fighter who embarks on a life-changing road trip with his son Lance (Dan Aykroyd) and teenage grandson (Corbin Allred). Feisty at 80 despite a recent stroke, Harry is faced with the prospect of being sent to a retirement home by his family.
Instead of giving in to a sheltered life, Harry convinces Michael and Lance to join him in search of thirteen long lost diamonds.
Harry leads the younger men on a touching and comic adventure across Nevada, where the trio encounters all sorts of trouble. Along the way, they meet up with pit bosses, gangsters, an intriguing madam named Sin-Dee, portrayed by Lauren Bacall, and the women in her brothel, including the irrepressible Jenny McCarthy.
In the end, Harry and his family discover that nothing is more important than the time they shared together.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Corbin Allred
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Corbin Allred, Jenny McCarthy, Kurt Fuller, Mariah O'Brien
Director: John Asher
Director: John Asher
Screenwriter: Allan Aaron Katz
Producer: Patricia Green
Composer: Joel Goldsmith
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Release:
Jul 18, 2000
Reviews for Diamonds
Douglas, always one of Hollywood's most vigorous actors, still commands the screen as Harry.
The star's courageous performance is the main attraction of a movie that shamelessly pours on the sentiment.
Douglas, still vigorous at 83, carries the film with one of the best performances of his long career, probably because many of his scenes are straight from the heart.
Even in his prime, Douglas couldn't have saved himself from this cliche-ridden script.
[Not] a work of art, or even entertainment, but the filmic commensurate of a crippled panhandler using his handicap to beg for sympathy and change on a streetcorner.
It’s a male-bonding road movie that veers off a weary course filled with dreary clichés on the way to a possible treasure in diamonds. The trip is barely worth it.
Diamonds can be proud of its achievement as the ultimate primer on elderly embarrassments and the best ways to exploit them.
Sadly, Kirk Douglas' real-life stroke is the most compelling ingredient in Miramax's new cobbled-together caper flick.
Unless you've just GOT to see what is most likely to be Kirk Douglas's last movie, there's really no reason to see this at all.
A sub-par effort in family drama with Kirk Douglas barely registering above his usual excellence
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