Nothing to Lose (film)
Cast
T. Paul - Martin Lawrence
Tim Robbins - Nick Beam
John C. McGinley - Davis 'Rig' Lanlow
Giancarlo Esposito - Charlie Dunt
Kelly Preston - Ann Beam
Michael McKean - Phillip "P.B" Barrow
Rebecca
Gayheart - Danielle
Susan Barnes - Delores
Irma P. Hall - Bertha 'Mama'
Davidson
Samaria Graham - Lisa Davidson
Marcus T. Paulk - Joey Davidson (as Marcus Paulk)
Penny Bae Bridges - Tonya Davidson
Steve Oedekerk - Security Guard Baxter
Mary Jo Keenen - Grace
Lisa Mende - Emma
Nothing to Lose (1997) is a comedy starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Steve Oedekerk who also wrote the film and made a cameo appearance as a lip-synching security guard in the film. In addition to Robbins and Lawrence, Nothing to Lose boasts an additional cast of John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston, Michael McKean, and others.
The film was released in July of 1997 and went on to gross over forty million dollars at the box office. Naughty by Nature sang the theme to the movie, which was titled "Nothing to Lose (Naughty Live)", but it was remix version of the song "Not Tonight" performed by Lil Kim and featuring Left Eye, Da Brat, Angie Martinez, and Missy Elliott that garned the most attention from the soundtrack as it gained much airplay on television and radio and even reached the top ten on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
The
film was shot at various locations in California and New Jersey. The prime location
used for filming in California was Los Angeles and Monrovia. The prime location
used in New Jersey for filming was Bloomfield, NJ.
Plot
The film is about Nick Beam (Robbins), an advertising executive who thinks his life is going very well, until one day he comes home and discovers his wife (Preston) is apparently having an affair with his boss, which pushes him to the edge of a nervous breakdown. So when T. Paul (Lawrence), a carjacker, attempts to rob him, it is the last straw for Nick. This pushes him over the edge, and he kidnaps T. Paul on the spot and drives him to the desert. Once lost in the state of Arizona, the unlikely pair become the target of a police hunt after T. Paul robs a gas station and they evade the law.
This leads to the secondary story when two other partners in crime (resembling Nick and Paul) get blamed for the crime and pursue the couple to L.A. after a confrontation in the desert after they ram Beam's car off the road.
After escaping the real criminals, the pair devise a plan to rob Beam's boss as revenge for stealing his wife. The plan runs smoothly until, during the robbery, Beam reveals himself to the security cameras after he hacks off the large penis of his boss's fertility statue. The situation worsens, however, as the real criminal pair, waiting outside, follows them to their hotel and places Paul in a trap for Beam to find when he returns from the bar.
Beam, after turning down a woman who hits on him, calls his wife to learn she was not at home on the day in question, and it was in fact her sister and her sister's fiancé he found in bed. After learning of his mistake, Beam sets things right by rescuing Paul, stopping the criminals, retrieving the money and returning it to his boss's safe. Then offering Paul a job running the security that he had so easily overcome.
Soundtrack
listing
"Nothin' to Lose (Naughty Live)" - Naughty By Nature
"Not
Tonight (Remix)" - Lil' Kim/Left Eye/Da Brat/Missy Elliott/Angie Martinez
"C U When U Get There" - Coolio/40 Thevz
"Put The Monkey
In It" - Dat Nigga Daz/Soopafly
"Thug Paradise" - Capone-N-Noreaga/Tragedy
"Way 2 Saucy" - MAC & A.K./Mac Mall
"Get Down With
Me" - Amari/Buckshot
"Poppin' That Fly-(DJ Clark Kent Remix)"
- Oran "Juice" Jones/Stu Large & Camp Lo
"Hit 'Em Up"
- Master P/TRU/Mercedes
"Everlasting" - Outkast
"In A Magazine"
- 911/Queen Pen
"Not Tonight" - Eightball & MJG
"It's
Alright" - Queen Latifah
"What's Going On" - Black Caesar
"Go
Stetsa I" - Stetsasonic
"Crazy Maze" - Des'ree
"Route
69" - Quad City DJ's
"Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" - Scatman
John
Taglines
When the odds are against you, sometimes the only
bet is yourself.
One has no job. The other has no life. Together, they have
everything to gain and-
Slick advertising guy who's lost it. Small time thief
who can't find it. When life sucks this bad, you may as well blow it all-.
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