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Safe Men

Safe Men

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Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg
John Hamburg
John Hamburg is an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Hamburg was born in New York City. Hamburg graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a degree in history...

. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell is an American actor, appearing primarily in independent films.-Early life:Rockwell was born in Daly City, California, the son of actors who divorced when he was five years old. He was raised by his father, Pete Rockwell, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny Hess, stayed behind in...

 and Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn
Steven James "Steve" Zahn is an American comedian and actor of both film and stage. He has appeared in many films, usually playing the role of a goofy comic relief sidekick.-Early life:...

 as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jew
Jew
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...

ish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner (actor)
-Biography:Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor...

) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor and comedian. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several...

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Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg
John Hamburg
John Hamburg is an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Hamburg was born in New York City. Hamburg graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a degree in history...

. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell is an American actor, appearing primarily in independent films.-Early life:Rockwell was born in Daly City, California, the son of actors who divorced when he was five years old. He was raised by his father, Pete Rockwell, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny Hess, stayed behind in...

 and Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn
Steven James "Steve" Zahn is an American comedian and actor of both film and stage. He has appeared in many films, usually playing the role of a goofy comic relief sidekick.-Early life:...

 as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jew
Jew
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...

ish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner (actor)
-Biography:Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor...

) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor and comedian. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several...

).

Safe Men was the debut film by Hamburg, who went on to write screenplays for such films as Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents is a American comedy film written by Greg Glienna and directed by Jay Roach of Austin Powers fame. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good hearted but hapless male nurse while visiting his girlfriend's parents...

, Zoolander
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 comedy film directed by Ben Stiller. The films concept is based on the Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama, with elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997....

, and Along Came Polly
Along Came Polly
Along Came Polly is a American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg.-Plot:Reuben Feffer is an insurance underwriter who, since his job involves analyzing risk for insurance purposes, likes living life in complete safety and free from any unnecessary risk...

which he also directed.

The movie was released on DVD
DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...

 on August 15, 2006 with new commentary features and a Hamburg short film about independently contracted bomb diffusers.

Songs in the Film as Listed in Credits
Title Performed By Written By
"Can You Get That" Funkadelic
Funkadelic
Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and began his work as a solo artist in 1981. He has been called one of the most prominent...

, Ernie Harris
"Hole In The Wall" The Packers
The Packers
The Packers were an American soul group formed by tenor saxophonist Charles "Packy" Axton, who was the son of Stax Records part-owner Estelle Axton. Axton was a former member of the Mar-Keys; Leon Haywood was among those who played on the group's records...

Nathaniel Nathan, Steve Cooper, Al Jackson, Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band, Booker T. and the MGs...

"Bring It Home Daddy" Ted Hawkins
Ted Hawkins
Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on 28 October 1936 and died on 1 January 1995, aged 58.Hawkins was an enigmatic figure through most of his career; he split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California where he was a mostly...

Ted Hawkins
"Chains & Things" B.B. King B.B. King, Dave Clark
"Jesus Is Waiting" Al Green
Al Green
Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who was popular in the 1970s, and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

Al Green
"More Mess On My Thing" The New Process Whitefield, Baral, Whitefield
"Baby Come Back" Player
Player (band)
Player is an American rock band during the late 1970s. Their #1 hit, "Baby Come Back" was written by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.-Career:...

Peter Beckett, John Charles Crowley
"Shake Your Thing" E.U. Rudolph, Ronald, and O'Kelly Isley
"Tell Me Something Good" Rufus & Chaka Khan Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for the label. He has recorded more than thirty U.S...

"It's Your Thing" Andy Mauro Rudolph, Ronald, and O'Kelly Isley
"Bust a Move
Bust a Move
Bust a Move can refer to:* "Bust a Move" , a 1989 hip hop song by Young MC from the album Stone Cold Rhymin* Bust a Move , a 2000 psychedelic trance song by Infected Mushroom from the album Classical Mushroom...

"
Young MC
Young MC
Marvin Young better known by his stage name Young MC is a British born American rapper. He is best known for his 1989 hit "Bust a Move"....

Michael Ross, Matt Dike, Marvin Young
"Got To Be Real" Cheryl Lynn
Cheryl Lynn
Lynda Cheryl Smith , better known by her stage name Cheryl Lynn is a disco, R&B and soul singer best known for her 1978 disco classic, "Got to Be Real".-Early career:...

Cheryl Lynn, David Paich, David Foster
"Car Wash" Rose Royce
Rose Royce
Rose Royce is a Grammy-nominated American soul band. The Los Angeles-based group composed of Henry Garner , Terral "Terry" Santiel , Lequeint "Duke" Jobe , Michael Moore , Rose Norwalt , Kenny Copeland , Kenji Brown , Freddie Dunn , and Michael Nash — was...

Norman Whitfield
"Sirius" Alan Parsons Project Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of several successful albums, including The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor...

, Eric Woolfson
Eric Woolfson
Eric Woolfson is a Scottish lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer, pianist, and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project....

"All Out Of Love
All Out of Love
"All Out of Love" is a pop–ballad by Air Supply, released in 1980. It reached number 2 in the US and number 11 in the UK. The song is considered to be one of the greatest love songs, placing 92nd in VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Love Songs....

"
Air Supply
Air Supply
Air Supply are a soft rock duo who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of British guitarist and vocalist Graham Russell and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock , plus various...

Graham Russel, Clive Davis
Clive Davis
Clive Davis is an American record producer, executive and a leading music industry executive. He has won multiple Grammy awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From 1967-72 he was the President of Columbia Records, was the founder and president of Arista Records in the late...

"Shake Your Groove Thing" Peaches & Herb
Peaches & Herb
Peaches & Herb are a vocalist duo, once comprising Herb Fame, and Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker...

Fredrick Perren, Dino Fekaris