Bait (2000) [R]

Featuring:
Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli

Written by:
Andrew Scheinman
Adam Scheinman
Tony Gilroy

Directed by:
Antoine Fuqua


Release Date:
September 15, 2000

Original Title:
Bait

Alternate Titles:
A Isca - 2000

Genres:
Action | Crime | Thriller

Production Companies:
Castle Rock Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  NO: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 119

Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.

Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the incarcerated half of the pair of high-tech thieves responsible for the missing gold. His partner, Bristol, is still at large. Alvin wants only to get out of prison and start fresh with his girlfriend, Lisa, and when the Feds, led by U.S. Treasury investigator Clenteen, set him loose on a sketchy deal, he thinks his luck has changed. Alvin has his freedom and the Feds have found their bait.

In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen hopes Alvin will act as the bait that'll lure Bristol in. To the dismay of Clenteen and his colleagues, agents Wooly, Blum, Boyle, and Walsh, who are tracking Alvin's every word and move, Alvin immediately gets into trouble, although he decides to go straight once he learns that while he was in prison, his girlfriend Lisa Hill gave birth to their son. Even so, run-ins with his criminal brother, Stevie Sanders and Stevie's two partners, Ramundo and Julio, puts Alvin in danger of being locked up again, which threatens to mess up Clenteen's plan. What will happen when Alvin realizes that he's being used as bait to nail Bristol?

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Rankings and Honors

Bait (2000) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 26%
Metacritic 39/100

Art Direction:
Peter Grundy
Patricia Woodbridge

Casting:
Susan Forrest
Ronnie Yeskel

Co-Producer:
Joseph Boccia

Costume Design:
Delphine White

Director:
Antoine Fuqua

Director of Photography:
Tobias A. Schliessler

Editor:
Alan Edward Bell

Executive Producer:
Jaime Rucker King
Tony Gilroy

Original Music Composer:
Mark Mancina

Producer:
Sean Ryerson

Production Design:
Peter Jamison

Set Decoration:
Jaro Dick
John 'Butch' Rose
Alyssa Winter

Utility Stunts:
Peter Bucossi

Writer:
Andrew Scheinman
Adam Scheinman
Tony Gilroy

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