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Summary: Overview: Rent, no purchase.
Review: Tuesday, August 20, 2002
11:52 HRS.SUBJECT: Review of "Prime Gig" Independent Pictures 2001.
Directed by: Greg Mosher
Written by: William Wheeler Overview: Rent, no purchase. I recently rented the video "Prime Gig". I rented the video because the trailer for the video looked intriguing; fair enough that is the purpose of the trailer. The basic plot of the movie is man vs. environment. The plot follows a telemarketer by the name of Pendleton "PENNY" Wise (Vince Vaughn). The movie opens with main character working in a Telemarketing firm selling "Vacation deals" on phone list. This telemarketing firm goes out of business. Broke and out of work/unemployed. Penny is making contact with two "headhunters" in bar. The headhunter give him a lead for Kelly Grant ( Ed Harris, Apollo 13,Truman Show, The Right Stuff) Kelly plays a call center manager, for a mining company that needs working capital to extract gold from an open pit mine in Arizona. The subplot of this movie is a love interest between the main character Penny and Caitlin (Julia Ormand, Sabrina), Caitlin plays a floor supervisor, and she admits she is an illegal alien from England. She manipulates Penny into marrying her to avoid being deported; she subsequently raids Penny's bank account and cleans him out. The problem I have with this plot is that there are highly reputable business's that use telemarketing as a tool to make contact with the public. Another flaw in the plot was, I saw no indication that the main character gave access or converted his savings account into joint status. Why didn't Penny diversify out of savings into other financial services like bonds, Mutual Funds. Penny was losing purchasing power on his money. Also, Penny's bank is now liable for the unauthorized withdraw. The deposits are protected under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, there is $100,000.00 cap. It was documented that his balance was $78,000.00, game over file a claim against the FDIC. Rest of world, this movie is worth renting, but do not buy. The opinions expressed in this review are that of Big AL, and not necessarily those of anywhere this is posted or its sponsors. Thank god for the 1st Amendment of United States Constitution.
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