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- 2002
- R
- Paramount Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2002
- R
- Paramount Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Summary A prison escapee (Slater) assumes the identity of a deceased man named Cletis Tout. He soon discovers that someone had a contract out on Cletis' life, so now the escapee has to deal with not only the police, but a hitman (Allen) as well.
Directed By: Chris Ver Wiel
Written By: Chris Ver Wiel
- 2002
- R
- Paramount Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2002
- R
- Paramount Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Who Is Cletis Tout?
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Summary A prison escapee (Slater) assumes the identity of a deceased man named Cletis Tout. He soon discovers that someone had a contract out on Cletis' life, so now the escapee has to deal with not only the police, but a hitman (Allen) as well.
Directed By: Chris Ver Wiel
Written By: Chris Ver Wiel
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
45% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
36
20% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
45% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.
There was a lot I liked in Cletis Tout, including the performances and the very audacity of details like the magic tricks and the carrier pigeons. But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Chris Ver Wiel, took a perfectly sound story idea and complicated it into an exercise in style. Less is more.
It's almost worth the price of admission to see Allen paying homage to "Singin' in the Rain" in the final sequence. Almost.
Cletis Tout is both in love with and able to laugh at the conventions it adopts, which is exactly where it goes wrong. It's just a little too self-satisfied.
It all makes the head spin -- in the direction of the exit sign.
What it lacks are solid performances, save Slater's game attempt to take everything seriously.
A convoluted comic caper that labors to affect a lighthearted, off-the-cuff feel, and winds up being a copy of a copy of a bad Tarantino-Elmore Leonard forgery, with Tim Allen as a glib cinephile hitman.
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Awards
Canadian Comedy Awards
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination
