Welcome To Collinwood (DVD)

...recent addition to my collection, Welcome to Collinwood. I’m not entirely sure what it was about this film that made me buy it, I’d hardly heard anything about it however now that I’ve watched it I’m quite glad that I did take the gamble on it. A petty criminal Cosimo (Luis Guzman) is caught red handed stealing a car and ends up in prison. Where he finds out about a Bellini (A Big Job), from a lifer in the pen he needs to ...
...he's willing to pay $15000. So he sets his girlfriend, Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) on the outside to find him a mellinski who can get him out of the prison so he can pull this one job that will make him rich. So she approaches various different criminals in the Collinwood area to try and take the fall, but none of them are interested and each one knows someone else who can do it as longs as they can have a part of the Bellini. Finally they get ...

Andy.mack 06.10.2003 · Read full review
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...George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, welcome to Collinwood is not your average american comedy. Although there are elements of slapstick which american humour over relies on, the majority of the films laughs are based on subtle irony and this works brilliantly with the misfit characters that make up this rather simple story. Story : The story starts off with petty thief Cosimo being told a story by a lifer in prison. Soon however Cosimo realises ...
...plan for a huge pay day or as it is reffered to by criminals, the perfect Belini. One slight problem, Cosimo is still in prison. It soon falls upon his girl Rosalind to find the man who can carry out the plan. Needless to say she finds her man but only with the help of five other guys who each want a piece of the action. What ensues is the trials and tribulations of this group of opportunists as they attempt to pull off the heist that will change ...

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I was interested to watch Welcome to Collinwood for a couple of reasons. Firstly because George Clooney is in it and secondly it is a comedy likened to Oceans Eleven which I really enjoyed. I obtained my copy from the Swapshop site and last night sat down with my husband to watch it. We did enjoy it but I'm not sure that it was quite what I was expecting. The film was made in 2002 and was directed by Joe and Antony Russo. I think the tagline for ...
...safe. No brains! (I have to confess that I have stolen this for my title too!). The five guys in question live in Collinwood a small town where little happens and where there are little prospects. Everyone is looking for their 'bellini!' According to message boards on the IMDb website this is supposedly street slang for a perfect heist plan - which is the only way any of them are going to make enough money to get out of the town. The five guys are ...

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...which culminated in me watching Welcome to Collinwood this afternoon. So a brief idea of what the film is then eh? well its a comedy but not your average type of nowadays comedy (i.e. American Pie, Road Trip and Not Another Teen Movie). The film surrounds a gang of small-time crooks who’ve been given details of one great heist where they could end up walking away from the whole Job with a cool $300,000 - there’s one problem - to get every detail ...
...honest the few reviews of Welcome to Collinwood that I read left me feeling a little unsure as to whether it was worth me going to see it or not - a lot of people were slating it because of George Clooney’s addition as producer, but in my eyes at least - those movie critics were wrong, its rare for me to actually laugh out loud in a cinema but on this particular movie there were plenty of occasions that along with the rest of the cinema-goers I was ...

Angelus 11.06.2003 (12.06.2003) · Read full review
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A guy’s got a life sentence in jail and he knows about a very big job, worth 300 grand (it was big at the time). So what does he do with this knowledge? He passes it on to a cell mate, but this cell mate is too greedy to wait until he gets out, so he needs a Mullinski. Mullinski – To take the fall for a con, after being paid a certain amount of money. Word gets out that this guys needs a Mullinski, and two seconds later word gets out as to why he ...
...guy’s got a Bellini. Bellini – A big score, worth a major amount of money. Confused yet?...No? Give me a few minutes. So a bunch of street criminals get word about this and all want in, but neither of them want to go to jail, they just want in on the job, so one of them cleverly gets this guy to talk, now all they have to do is get the money. Okay now I’m confused. Five criminals + A big jackpot + A few obstacles = A funny movie. This type of movie ...

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What can I say, you will look at the trailer for this film and think, oh yes another set of funny clips from an average film (like all of us who saw the trailer for Johnny English and were daft enough to watch the film!). In fact some may think it looks poorly made, the picture and colour quality looks low grade, but thats the idea. Imagine living in the back end of nowhere, how dull and dreary might every-day life seem? There you are. This is not ...
...explosion addicts, this is one for the purists. The film begins with 'lifer' Cosimo played by Luis Guzman (Carlitos Way, Punch Drunk Love, Boogie Nights) confessing to his long term lady Rosalind, Patricia Clarkson (The Green Mile, The Pledge), of his 'bellini', the dinner ticket, the last big job, and asking her to find him a 'mullinski', a fall guy so to speak, who will take the rap for Cosimo's actions, get him off the hook and so free him to ...

Ratherhaveaham 22.05.2003 · Read full review
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What's It About? When petty thief Cosimo (Luis Guzman) is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in the penn - He's given a Bellini, the kind of job all criminals dream about, so he must get out of prison asap. Cosimo needs a `Mullinski,' (someone to take the wrap), and he is willing to pay 15 large ($15000) to someone to do 1-3 years in the joint for him. Cosimo is stuck inside so it's up to his girlfriend Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) ...
...one wants to do the time for Cosimo's crime, but everybody knows someone who will - and for a share of the Bellini, they're willing to find him. Rosalind soon has five guys on her trail, looking to get their bungling hands on a piece of the action and make a quick buck along the way. Its definately a film you have to see, it could be described as 'Oceans 11' gone wrong, and with even more laughs. Its a movie about 5 guys, one safe and no brains! ...

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