Summary: Avery Chasten (Henry Thomas) is desperate: his sister Elise (Laura Harris) has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000, and his father doesn't have the cash. So Avery and his buddies (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeremy Sisto, Jay Mohr, and Johnny Galecki) concoct a bold, semi-suicial scheme: abduct retired mob boss Charlie Bartolucci (Christopher Walken), hide out in their inept friend Ira's (Galecki) house while his folks are out of town, and force Bartolucci to use his contacts to find the girl. Amused by his fledgling captors, the seasoned mobster agrees to help them...but not before he cautions them that the guilty party might be right under their noses. Directed by Peter O'Fallon. Also starring Dennis Leary ('The Ref'), Laura San Giacomo ('Just Shoot Me'), and Cliff DeYoung ('Shock Treatment').
Images:
Trivia:
According to the director's DVD commentary, Laura Harris got the role as Elise Chasten because her then boyfriend Johnny Galecki, who appears in the film as Ira, mentioned her name when the producers were looking to fill the role.
The DVD contains two alternate endings to the film.
In one of the alternate endings, Laura Harris appears with long hair. In the film, she appears with short hair at the end. This is because the studio was unhappy with the original ending (in which she appeared with long hair). A new ending was filmed a month later, in April 1997, at which time Laura was filming 'Just the Ticket' in which she has short hair. Laura made four films with short hair ('Suicide Kings', 'Just the Ticket', 'Into the Arms of Danger', and 'Kitchen Party'). She is now back with long hair (ie 'The Faculty')
