Best Laid Plans
Keeping a relationship alive can be murder
Synopsis
Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Main Cast
Alessandro Nivola
Nick
Reese Witherspoon
Lissa
Josh Brolin
Bryce
Gene Wolande
Lawyer
Jonathan McMurtry
Vet
Terrance Sweeney
Priest
Rebecca Klingler
Diner Waitress
Rocky Carroll
Bad Ass Dude
Kate Hendrickson
Bar Waitress
Owen Bush
Vagrant
Trailer
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
"Nick" (Alessandro Nivola) reckons he is going to inherit a decent sized chunk from his late father, but when he discovers that there is nothing left he needs cash. Coaxed into being a getaway driver in a robbery that will net him $10,000 he is soon apprehended by the no-nonsense victim who demands $15,000 back - or else! He and his girlfriend "Lissa" (Reese Witherspoon) now concoct a rather elaborate plan to extort the money from his wealthy, nice-but-dim friend "Bryce" (Josh Brolin) by framing him for rape. The plot has plenty of twists and turns, but neither the acting nor the really quite banal dialogue sustain much of a sense of either menace or interest. Nivola hasn't the skill as an actor to engage us in this faintly ridiculous wheeze, and Witherspoon offers little either as we head to an especially dumb denouement. It's not just the robbery that is botched...
