Director:Steven Soderbergh

Screenwriters:Stephen W. Carpenter, Scott Frank, Ted Griffin

"a remake of the 1960 Lewis Milestone's picture Ocean's 11."

Cast:
George Clooney (Danny Ocean);
Brad Pitt;
Julia Roberts;
Don Cheadle;
Matt Damon;
Casey Affleck;
Scott Caan;
Elliott Gould (Ruben Tischkoff);
Andy Garcia (Terry Benedict);
Carl Reiner (Saul Bloom);
Bill Murray;
Ralph Fiennes;
Edward Jemison.



RUSTY RYAN (Brad Pitt)
Rusty’s a whiz with a deck of cards, and he’s growing bored giving lessons in how to be a cold-blooded gambler to Hollywood pretty boy KYLE TANNER. Knowing that Matt Damon, who had to study poker with experts in order to star in ROUNDERS, is also in this film makes this feel like a particularly wicked introduction. Right away, we see that Rusty is every bit Danny’s equal.

REUBEN TISHKOFF (Elliott Gould)
Perfect match of actor and role. Gould should be hilarious as Tishkoff, the guy who bankrolls Danny’s crazy plan as a way of getting back at Terry Benedict, the guy who screwed him out of his casino and drove him off the strip.

TURK and VIRGIL MALLOY (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan)
Part peckerwood menace, part electronics whiz, the Malloy Boys are valuable members of the team, even if they seem barely coherent in conversation.

FRANK CATTON (Bernie Mac)
If you’re familiar with Bernie Mac, then you’ve probably been waiting for someone to figure out how to harness his particular brand of intensity properly for a film. Well, this is the role. Frank’s given up on his days of crime and has taken a job as a dealer in Atlantic City. He’s the first one aboard Danny’s plan, and his transfer to Vegas sets the whole thing in motion.

BASHER TARR (Don Cheadle)
Don was right not to play just another lounge singer, a rehash of the Sammy Davis Jr. role. He’s more interesting than that, and Basher is a great role for him to play. This is the guy who is responsible for turning off the power on Vegas, creating the distraction that will give them a chance to pull off the impossible job.

SAUL BLOOM (Carl Reiner)
Here’s a happy accident. I love the work of Alan Arkin, and I think he would have been amazing playing Saul. There’s something eternally cool about the presence he brings to films. When he dropped out, though, and Carl Reiner came onboard... well, that may have been one of those things that was simply meant to be. Reiner’s a wonderful comic performer who rarely gets the chance to bust out his chops these days. This is a damn good part, central to the heist, and Reiner should play Saul... as well as Lyman Zerga, his alter-ego... with wit and style to spare, schooling his younger castmates in the process.

LINUS CALDWELL (Matt Damon)
He’s the hands. There’s a crucial lift that has to be made, and Linus is a pickpocket beyond compare. His father Bobby is an old friend of Reuben’s, and a guy with an enormous rep of his own. Linus has to step up to take Danny’s place at a crucial point in the film, and it’s a defining moment for a guy just coming into his own.
And there’s characters outside Danny’s gang, too.

TERRY BENEDICT (Andy Garcia)
Every so often, someone gives Andy Garcia a shot at real serious stardom. His role in THE GODFATHER III and his proposed role in THE GODFATHER IV sounded like a step up to something bigger. His role in THE UNTOUCHABLES was a great introduction. But he never manages to keep any heat going. Whether that’s by choice or by circumstance, I’m just glad that he always eventually resurfaces. He should be perfect as the guy who’s getting robbed, the target of all this sound and fury. It’s a great role in the script, full of moments for Garcia to shine. If we’re supposed to like Danny and his band of merry thieves, then it’s a safe bet that we should want to see their target get robbed. Terry Benedict is a great target.

TESS (Julia Roberts)
She was Danny’s. Now she’s Terry’s. And Danny wants her back. It’s not that complicated a role, but in the hands of Julia, especially back in the arms of the director who took her all the way to the Oscars, this is the kind of luminous movie star role she plays better than anyone.

STORY LINE:
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) has just gotten out of prison.?He's a thief who knows he's never going to give up his day job, and that's why his wife Tess divorced him while he was still serving time in the slam.?

Once out, Danny breaks parole and hooks up with his former partner-in-crime Dusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) and hatches a new plan: rob $100 million dollars from three of Las Vegas' swankiest casinos, the Oasis, the Versailles and the Cote d'Azur�all owned by one man, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia).

Benedict's vaults are considered impenetrable, his security force is above reproach, and to top it off, Danny wants to rob the casinos on the same night a world heavyweight boxing match is going down inside one of them.?Sound impossible to you??It's all in the details, baby.

To assist Danny and Ryan, they go to Reuben Tischkoff (Elliot Gould) for funding.?After a little finessing - and the prospect that Reuben can get back at Benedict for a past transgression -袠euben decides he's in.?And after that, it's just a simple matter of selecting who the remaining partners in Danny's team of professional criminals will be.