Out of Sight

Director: Steven Soderbergh

1998 / 123min / 35mm

Elmore Leonard’s favorite settings for his crime novels were his hometown of Detroit and his second home in south Florida, and Soderbergh’s adaptation of a 1996 Leonard page-turner moves between both, as Jennifer Lopez’s US Marshal gets caught up in career criminal George Clooney’s breakout from the Glades Correction Institution in Palm Beach County and finds herself part of the team tasked with bringing him to justice… though that’s not all she wants from the handsome rogue. A masterclass in movie star chemistry and the irresistible pleasures of snappy patter and loop-the-loop twists, with Michael Keaton briefly reprising the role he plays in Quentin Tarantino’s own Leonard adaptation, Jackie Brown.

Distributor: Universal