Out of Sight (1998 Film)

Out of Sight is a 1998 movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, released on June 26, 1998. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best screenplay. It revolves around the cat-and-mouse play between an escaped bankrobber Jack Foley and a U.S. Marshall, as Foley is staging the theft of a large diamond stash.

"Out of Sight may go down in the annals of film as the movie in which George Clooney learned to keep his head still -- and became a leading man. "--Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/01/08/DD18760.DTL

"As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill."--Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie980625-5,0,6661507.story

Career bankrobber Jack Foley breaks out of prison and finds himself hiding in the trunk of a car with kidnapped U.S. Marshall, Karen Sisco. Foley meets up with his old gang to pull of a new robbery. This time, the goal is a large diamond stash, but there are others who are in for the same prize. Foley and his companions are in a race to reach the diamonds, but also have to deal with Karen Sisco, who is hot on their tails, determined to put them back in jail, even though both are split over their attraction to each other.

• George Clooney as Jack Foley

• Albert Brooks as Richard Ripley

• Steve Zahn as Glenn Michaels

• Don Cheadle as Maurice Miller

• Dennis Farina as Marshall Sisco

• Ving Rhames as Buddy Bragg

• Jennifer Lopez as Karen Sisco