Rat Race
Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker. Written by Andy Breckman, the film is inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and it features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf and Dave Thomas.
Plot
Eccentric hotel tycoon Donald Sinclair devises a game to entertain the high rollers who visit his Las Vegas casino. He arranges for six competitors to race the to Silver City, New Mexico, where $2 million is in a train station locker. Sinclair's guests place bets on who will win. The racers consist of brothers Duane and Blaine Cody, businesswoman Merrill Jennings and her mother Vera, disgraced football referee Owen Templeton, Randy Pear and his family, narcoleptic Italian tourist Enrico Pollini and no-nonsense attorney Nick Schaffer. Having initially agreed not to play, greed takes over and they start to race.
Cast
- Amy Smart
- Brandy Ledford
- Breckin Meyer
- Brody Smith
- Colleen Camp
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Dave Thomas
- Dean Cain
- Diamond Dallas Page
- Gene LeBell
- Gerard Plunkett
- Gloria Allred
- Jenica Bergere
- John Cleese
- Jon Lovitz
- Kathy Bates
- Kathy Najimy
- L. Harvey Gold
- Lanei Chapman
- Lucy Lee Flippin
- Paul Rodriguez
- Rance Howard
- Rick Cramer
- Rowan Atkinson
- Seth Green
- Silas Weir Mitchell
- Vince Vieluf
- Wayne Knight
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Yvette Dudley-Neuman