Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Aug 22, 1998 Wide
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Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin (Joe Mantegna), and Sammy Davis Jr. (Don Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers, gangsters, actors, and politicans (sometimes brushing shoulders in the same rooms). The film also explores Sinatra's relationship with John F. Kennedy (William Peterson). Deciding to support Kennedy, Sinatra
Aug 22, 1998 Wide
Dec 22, 1998
HBO Video
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (4) | DVD (2)
Inventive biopic mixes politics and history with dazzling color and visual style.
For a TV movie, this is 'king of the hill... top of the heap...'
I don't have to waste my time this weekend or a blank VHS tape. This is not one I care to place in my video library.
A pretty intense look at the different lifestyles of Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, and Dean Martin, the fifth member is left out a little bit. It shows their independent struggles and triumphs and their rise and fall as the pack. The most interesting for me was Don Cheadle's portrayal of Sammy, he did a
June 20, 2010The "Rat Pack" is mostly about about politics and Frank Sinatra, and then about the Rat Pack. From what I have read of Sinatra's activities, I think this accurately covers his obsessive involvement with JFK and the Kennedy clan. Although the movie stops short of creating hypothetical situations, or introducing names
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