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Knockaround Guys is a 2001 gangster movie starring Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper

Barry Robert Pepper is a Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Emmy-nominated Canada-born actor....
, Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a "multi-faceted" actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage....
, John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
 and Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....


Plot
Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper

Barry Robert Pepper is a Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Emmy-nominated Canada-born actor....
 plays Matty Demaret, the son of a mob boss. But he is used as little more than an errand boy. His relative and friend Chris (Andy Davoli) shares this urge to be part of something bigger, and Matty finally convinces his father to give him a job, with the help of his father's right-hand man Teddy (John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
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Knockaround Guys is a 2001 gangster movie starring Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper

Barry Robert Pepper is a Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Emmy-nominated Canada-born actor....
, Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a "multi-faceted" actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage....
, John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
 and Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....


Plot


Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper

Barry Robert Pepper is a Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Emmy-nominated Canada-born actor....
 plays Matty Demaret, the son of a mob boss. But he is used as little more than an errand boy. His relative and friend Chris (Andy Davoli) shares this urge to be part of something bigger, and Matty finally convinces his father to give him a job, with the help of his father's right-hand man Teddy (John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
). Matty and Chris get their friend Johnny Marbles (Seth Green
Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is best known for his role as Oz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , as well as Doctor Evil's son Scott Evil in the Austin Powers series series of comedy films and List of recurring characters of That '70s Show in That '70s Show....
) to fly up to retrieve a bag full of money for Matty's father Benny "Chains" Demaret (Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....
), as there have been mysterious shortages in their money lately.

On the way back with the money, Marbles stops in a small Montana town to refuel his personal plane and misplaces the bag accidentally. He calls Matty and tells him the news. Matty, though extremely upset, knows that he must fix the situation quickly and quietly if he ever wants to work for his father. Matty, Chris, and their friend Taylor (Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a "multi-faceted" actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage....
) fly to the small town of Wibaux, Montana
Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
 to help Marbles search for the missing money. The bag of money is found by two local teenage skateboarders.

While in town, Matty and the other guys attract the attention of two local law-enforcement officers (Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan

Tom Noonan is an United States actor and film writer-director....
 and Shawn Doyle
Shawn Doyle

Shawn Doyle is a Canada actor.Doyle was born and raised in Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, the son of actor Jerry Doyle....
) who find out about the money and want to keep it for themselves. The mob guys then try to negotiate with the officers to get the money back but are turned away. Matty calls Teddy and Teddy arrives in Wibaux with two other mob henchmen. Chris decides to leave for home and disappears. Marbles hangs around in a bar with the two mob henchmen who secretly hate him, while Taylor and Matty wait in their hotel for word from the Sheriff. After taking him outside in a friendly manner, the two mob men throw Marbles to the ground and ask about the whereabouts of the other three. Marbles tells them he doesn't know and the two shoot him several times and throw his body in a trunk.

Later that night, a deal is arranged for the Sheriff and Deputy to meet Matty and Taylor in a warehouse. When they arrive, the lawmen are planning to kill Matty and the others and keep the money, but Teddy and the two mob men show up when Matty and Taylor do and they entire thing turns into a Mexican standoff. Chris arrives and shoots the Sheriff's cousin who came to help the Sheriff, and Matty and Taylor inquire about Marbles. Chris says that he thought he was with them. Teddy gives a signal to the two henchmen and they all fire on Chris who is killed. The Sheriff and Deputy, in the chaos, shoot the two mob men. Taylor then kills both of the lawmen but is shot in the arm by Teddy. Teddy's gun is out and Matty holds him at gunpoint. Matty says that it is Teddy that has been stealing and causing shortages from his father all along. Teddy tries to reload and shoot Matty claiming that Matty doesn't have the guts to shoot him, but Matty kills Teddy. Matty and Taylor get the money and return home. Upon giving the bag to his father, Matty is offered a position in with his father, but refuses it, claiming that he no longer wants to be part of it. He walks outside and he and Taylor get in a car and drive off.

Cast

Actor Role
Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper

Barry Robert Pepper is a Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Emmy-nominated Canada-born actor....
 
Matty Demaret
Andy Davoli Chris Scarpa
Seth Green
Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is best known for his role as Oz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , as well as Doctor Evil's son Scott Evil in the Austin Powers series series of comedy films and List of recurring characters of That '70s Show in That '70s Show....
 
Johnny Marbles
Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a "multi-faceted" actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage....
 
Taylor Reese
John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
 
Teddy Deserve
Arthur J. Nascarella
Arthur J. Nascarella

'Arthur J. Nascarella' is an United States character actor who has appeared in dozens of films, most often playing mobsters and cops. Among his notable film credits include a corrupt cop in Cop Land , a hypocritical ambulance captain in Bringing Out The Dead and a fed-up casino boss in The Cooler; he has also appeared in He Got G...
 
Billy Clueless
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan

Tom Noonan is an United States actor and film writer-director....
 
Sheriff Stan Decker
Nicholas Pasco Freddy the Watch
Shawn Doyle
Shawn Doyle

Shawn Doyle is a Canada actor.Doyle was born and raised in Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, the son of actor Jerry Doyle....
 
Deputy Sheriff Donny Ward
Kevin Gage Gordon Brucker
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....
 
Benny "Chains" Demaret
Andrew Francis
Andrew Francis

Andrew Francis is an actor and voice artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in many television shows including Poltergeist, Dark Angel , Twilight Zone, The L Word, Smallville and Kyle XY....
 
Matty (age 13)
John Liddle Heslep the barkeeper
Kris Lemche
Kris Lemche

Kristopher Lemche is a Canadian actor.Lemche was born in Brampton, Ontario to a schoolteacher mother and a father who was the proprietor of a heating business....
 
Decker
Dov Tiefenbach
Dov Tiefenbach

'Dov Yosef Tiefenbach' is a Canadian actor and musician.Tiefenbach was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He began his acting career at the age of 12, first starting off in commercials before playing the role of 'Josh Avery' in the television series Robocop , and landed his first starring role as 'Murray Murray' in the short film Love C...
 
Teeze
Catherine Fitch Louise
Ceciley Jenkins Claire
Jennifer Baxter
Jennifer Baxter

Jennifer Baxter is a Canada actress and comedian formerly based out of Toronto and currently living in Los Angeles with her husband Mike Beaver....
 
Terri
Josh Mostel
Josh Mostel

'Joshua "Josh" Mostel' is an United States actor who is most known for his roles in Jesus Christ Superstar and two Adam Sandler films ....
 
Mac McCreadle
Mike Starr
Mike Starr (actor)

Mike Starr is an American actor. Known for his large size, he has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen.Starr was born in Flushing, Queens, New York to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father....
 
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