Matchstick Men -#023

Team the legendary Ridley Scott coming off Gladiator, Hannibal and Blackhawk Down with the one and only Nicolas Cage and you’re sure to have a smash hit on your hands, right? Not so much. Which is a shame because this largely forgotten critically acclaimed 2003 film features a phenomenal performance from Nicolas Cage that’ll make you want to laugh so hard you’ll PISS BLOOD! So, enjoy the insanity of Nic’s one and only collaboration with Ridley Scott as we break down Matchstick Men. When an obsessive-compulsive con artist with Tourette’s syndrome named Roy Waller and his partner get tired of pulling small time cons, they decide to go for a big score, but things quickly get complicated when Roy’s long-lost daughter arrives on the scene and we’re left to wonder who is really getting conned. Matchstick Men features the one and only onscreen collaboration between Nic Cage and the always spellbinding Sam Rockwell, a breakout performance from 23-year-old teenager Alison Lohman, legendary character actor Bruce McGill, Bruce Altman and the only man I want cleaning my apartment, Academy Award winning actor and flimflam man Nicolas Kim Coppola, better known as Nicolas Cage.