Spanish Judges is 1999 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

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 crime drama

Police procedural

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 film starring Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles as Stu Macher in Scream, Stevo in SLC Punk , and Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo film series and the Animated reboot series.-Early life:Lillard was born in Lansing, Michigan, and grew up in Tustin, California...

 and Vincent D'onofrio

Vincent D'Onofrio

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. In Australia

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, the film was released under the title Ruthless Behaviour.

Plot

Jack (Lillard) is a con artist

Confidence trick

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 who sets out to enlist a couple to help him with a scam. Jack eventually meets up with two petty criminals, Max (D'onofrio) and Jamie (Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino

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). Max is a small time thief with high aspirations and low self-esteem, while Max's hot-tempered girlfriend Jamie collects poison

Poison

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s. After a game of cat and mouse

Cat and mouse

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, the couple agree to help with Jack in exchange for a piece of the action. Jack's scam involves recovering mysterious stolen merchandise, known as the Spanish Judges, and a briefcase containing a million dollars. With a buyer all lined up, Max and Jamie enlist their friend Piece (Mark Boone Junior

Mark Boone Junior

Mark Boone Junior is an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as Bobby Munson in FX's Sons of Anarchy and in two films by Christopher Nolan, Memento and Batman Begins...

), along with his girlfriend Mars Girl (Tamara Mello

Tamara Mello

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) for extra help. As the situation explodes, allegiances are tested and the slippery nature of the truth is finally revealed.

Cast

• Matthew Lillard.....Jack
• Vincent D'onofrio.....Max
• Valeria Golino.....Jamie
• Mark Boone Junior.....Piece
• Mars Girl.....Tamara Mello
• David Glen Eisley
  David Glen Eisley
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  .....George
• Ed O'Ross
  Ed O'Ross
  Ed O'Ross is an American actor perhaps best known for playing the giggling spectacled gangster Itchy in Dick Tracy, ruthless Georgian mobster Viktor Rostavili in Red Heat, and tough-then-alien-possessed police detective Cliff Willis in The Hidden.-Early life:O'Ross was born Edward Oross in...
  
  .....The Boss Man
• George Griffith.....Griff
• Sam Hiona.....Harry
• Dennis Keiffer.....Lenny
• Rhino Michaels.....Hitman 1
• Dale "Mad Dog" Messmer.....Auctioneer
• J.W. Smith.....Red
• Michael Shamus Wiles.....Wellings