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Biography
for|financial education|FoolProofotherusesunreferenced|date=December 2010Infobox Film| name = Foolproof| image =| caption = A promotional poster for Foolproof | director = William Phillips (director)|William Phillips | producer = Colin Brunton Bill House Seaton McLean | writer = William Phillips (director)|William Phillips | starring = Ryan Reynolds David Suchet Kristin Booth Joris Jarsky James Allodi Anthony J. Mifsud|Mif (Anthony J. Mifsud) | music = Jim McGrath (musician)|Jim McGrath | cinematography = Derek Rogers | editing = Susan Shipton | distributor =| released = 2003| runtime = 93 min.| rating = R| country = Canada | awards =| language = English| budget = Canadian Dollar|CAD $7,800,000| preceded_by =| followed_by = Foolproof is a 2003 Canada|Canadian heist film directed by William Phillips (director)|William Phillips and starring Ryan Reynolds , David Suchet , Kristin Booth , Joris Jarsky , and James Allodi . It was the first attempt by a Canadian studio to create a heist movie, in the same vein as '' Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|Ocean's Eleven . The film was a major financial failure and received mostly mediocre reviews.
The movie was filmed in Toronto, Ontario , Canada , and produced by Alliance Atlantis Communications and Ego Film Arts and released theatrically on October 3, 2003, by Odeon Films in Canada and Momentum Pictures of the United Kingdom .
In Canada, it was released in 204 theatres, more than any other movie in the past. Under Telefilm Canada rules stating the movie producers must have a good script and firm distribution deals to get a grant of more than Canadian dollar|C$ 1,000,000, Telefilm granted Foolproof Canadian dollar|C$ 3,400,000. The entire budget was Canadian dollar|C$ 7,800,000.
Plot
The movie centres around a group of friends: Kevin (played by Reynolds), Sam (Booth) and Rob (Jarsky). They play a game, known as "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burglary|burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them.
All is fine until a famous criminal, Leo Gillete (Suchet), steals the trio's plans to burglarize a jewelry company and accomplishes the heist. He then blackmail s the group into designing and executing a plan to steal $20 million in bonds from a bank. Tension escalates within the group as Rob befriends Leo, while Kevin and Sam attempt to hinder his plans.
Philip Craig (actor)|Philip Craig as Albert Humphrey
Reception
The movie was a major financial failure. Despite its Canadian dollar|C$ 7,800,000 budget, the movie grossed in Canada slightly less than Canadian dollar|C$ 460,000 and grossed virtually nothing in the US, where it was released direct-to-video .
External links
http://www.foolproofthemovie.com Official Website
imdb title|id=0356614|title=Foolproof
Amg movie|294949|Foolproof
Rotten-tomatoes|id=foolproof|title=Foolproof
Category:2003 films Category:Heist films Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by William Phillips
