The Sting PG

...all it takes is a little confidence.
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 5, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1973
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1973 - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Marvin Hamlisch
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Art Direction: Henry Bumstead
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: James Payne
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Costume Design: Edith Head
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Director: George Roy Hill
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Film Editing: William H. Reynolds
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Original Screenplay: David S. Ward
Academy Awards 1973 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

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Certified Fresh93%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 61,625
Rating: 3.5/4 -- As for Newman and Redford, they have developed a form of instant communication. Words are not as important as they way they look at each other. Call it as snow job or call it acting, it is very pleasing to watch. Full Review
New York Daily News
Feb 27, 2015
It is a sparkling film, an American Borsalino, with sharp, clever dialogue, directed at a fine pace and with a good eye for period detail by George Roy Hill. Full Review
The Spectator
Mar 24, 2015
The Sting remains the definitive con artist comedy: as irresistible and ingenious as the scheme that hooks in Doyle. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 1, 2015
[A] Depression-era caper in which the actors played con men who attempt to relieve Robert Shaw's murderous gangster of half a million bucks via horse-racing scam.
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 1, 2012
It is a fast and furious double shuffle, salted with suspense, humor, surprises, sudden death and a grand slam finale. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Dec 17, 2019
Rating: 4/4 -- Redford and Newman provide the real sting. Full Review
Three Movie Buffs
Nov 16, 2014
This is sheer entertainment, artfully made but without self conscious artiness. It is a picture put together by craftsmen who bring to it all their skills with only one purpose-entertainment. Full Review
Cleveland Press
Apr 4, 2019

Product Description:

Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim of one of their scams who turns out to be powerful syndicate boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Eager for revenge, Johnny takes a tip from his dying partner and seeks out mutual friend Gondorff, a consummate master of the long con. Gondorff rouses himself from his alcoholic inertia and agrees to help Johnny take down the despicable Lonnegan, conscripting an army of grifters ready to avenge their friend's death. The labyrinthine plot, which is stuffed with false leads, red herrings, and a double-cross-a-minute, involves a fake bookie joint, a very persistent FBI agent, a bunch of corrupt cops, and one shifty dame. An extremely entertaining film, the Oscar-winning film transcends the genre through the superb acting of the three leads, the keen attention to the re-creation of period detail, and a fiendishly intricate script that cons audiences completely. The wonderful score, which became immensely popular, featured Marvin Hamlisch's orchestral transcriptions of Scott Joplin's piano rags; the film led to a revival of interest in the composer. The film is one of the most entertaining films of the 1970s and lives up to its hype on repeat viewings.

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  • UPC: 025192139970
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