Release Date:
Friday, July 13, 2001
Jon Favreau, the writer and star of the instant guy movie classic Swingers, steps behind the camera for the first time with Made, a mob flick that manages to be funny without swiping laughs from any of the countless goombah comedies currently clogging the entertainment industry. Alongside Vince Vaughn, Favreau brings Swingers’ laid-back brand of comedy to the world of shady gangsters, New York club life, and really bad boxers.
Bobby (Favreau) is a down-on-his-luck pugilist trying to support his stripper girlfriend (the gorgeous-even-when-looking-strung-out Famke Janssen) by working for a construction company owned by mob guy Max (a pitch-perfect Peter Falk). Max sends Bobby and his equally pathetic friend Ricky (Vaughn) to New York to set up a deal with Ruiz (a surprisingly not-terrible Sean “P. Diddy” Combs), and, of course, everything goes to shit. With Favreau once again playing the deadpan straight man, Vaughn takes over the movie as the unstoppable asshole juggernaut that is Ricky—like Swingers’ Trent, only with a mouth that gets him in deep shit instead of laid. He turns being a complete prick into an art form, and we couldn’t stop laughing. With a few “hey, isn’t that…?”-level cameos and a great soundtrack, Made should have you happily waiting to see if Favreau and crew can pull off a three-peat.
Bobby (Favreau) is a down-on-his-luck pugilist trying to support his stripper girlfriend (the gorgeous-even-when-looking-strung-out Famke Janssen) by working for a construction company owned by mob guy Max (a pitch-perfect Peter Falk). Max sends Bobby and his equally pathetic friend Ricky (Vaughn) to New York to set up a deal with Ruiz (a surprisingly not-terrible Sean “P. Diddy” Combs), and, of course, everything goes to shit. With Favreau once again playing the deadpan straight man, Vaughn takes over the movie as the unstoppable asshole juggernaut that is Ricky—like Swingers’ Trent, only with a mouth that gets him in deep shit instead of laid. He turns being a complete prick into an art form, and we couldn’t stop laughing. With a few “hey, isn’t that…?”-level cameos and a great soundtrack, Made should have you happily waiting to see if Favreau and crew can pull off a three-peat.