Out Of Sight

PLOT

A career bank robber, Jack Foley, and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco, are forced to share a car trunk during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Foley is chased by Sisco while he and his friends—right-hand man Buddy and unreliable associate Glenn—work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley, who foolishly bragged to them in prison years before about a cache of uncut diamonds hidden in his home.

As Foley and Buddy discuss their plan, Foley returns to his apartment room. Shortly after, Sisco enters Foley’s room with her gun drawn. She approaches the bathroom, the door is slightly open and she looks in to see Foley taking a bath with his eyes closed. Foley suddenly grabs her gun and smiles at her, she does the same. He the guides her into the tub with him and they make out passionately. Sisco is abruptly woken up, it had been a dream. Much to her disappointment.

Glenn spills the diamond plot to a vicious criminal named Maurice Miller, who also spent time in jail with Jack and Ripley. Maurice then plans to rob Ripley's mansion with his own crew, including Kenneth and White Boy Bob. Maurice and Foley agree to team up on the job and split the earnings, while Glenn gets cold feet and ducks out after Maurice forces him to help kill a drug dealer, with Sisco allowing him to escape.

Before the robbery, a romantic interlude between Foley and Sisco takes place in a Detroit hotel, but the question of whether she is really pursuing Foley to arrest him or for love ends in a showdown during the robbery at Ripley's home and adds to "the fun" Foley claims they are having.

In the course of the heist, White Boy Bob accidentally shoots and kills himself after tripping on the stairs, while Foley shoots and kills Kenneth as he attempts to sexually assault Ripley's housekeeper/lover, Midge. Sisco, having followed the team to Ripley's home, shoots and kills Maurice, and arrests Foley after he implores her to kill him, telling her to "pretend [he’s] someone else". Buddy is able to slip away with Ripley's diamonds.

The next morning, Foley is loaded aboard a van to be returned to prison in Florida. Another detainee, Hejira Henry, boards the van and mentions to Foley that he has escaped from prison nine previous times, and was deliberately placed by Sisco in the same van as Foley. Sisco smiles as the van leaves for Florida.

CAST

George Clooney as Jack Foley

Jennifer Lopez as Karen Sisco

Ving Rhames as Buddy Bragg

Don Cheadle as Maurice Miller

Steve Zahn as Glenn Michaels

Albert Brooks as Richard Ripley

Dennis Farina as Marshall Sisco

Luis Guzmán as Chino

Isaiah Washington as Kenneth

Nancy Allen as Midge

Keith Loneker as White Boy Bob

Catherine Keener as Adele

Viola Davis as Moselle Miller

Paul Calderón as Raymond Cruz

Wendell B. Harris Jr. as Daniel Burdon

Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolette (uncredited)

Samuel L. Jackson as Hejira Henry (uncredited)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel of the same name