Fresh
Is Jack, who is patterned on a real-life character, sociopathic or just plain clueless? Gallo doesn't seem to care. He cares about parading before us lowlifes living the high life.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Middle Men
Business is a lot like sex ... getting in is easy, pulling out is hard.
2009 · 1h 45m · R
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by
George Gallo
Overview
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
Director and cast
- George Gallo Director
- Luke Wilson as Jack Harris
- Giovanni Ribisi as Wayne Beering
- Gabriel Macht as Buck Dolby
- James Caan as Jerry Haggerty
- Jacinda Barrett as Diana Harris
- Kevin Pollak as Curt Allmans
- Laura Ramsey as Audrey Dawns
- Rade Šerbedžija as Nikita Sokoloff
- Terry Crews as James
- Kelsey Grammer as Frank Griffin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
40%
Tomatometer
Rotten
I never got the feeling Gallo and company figured out how to compress and focus their stories.
Michael Phillips, At the Movies
Rotten
Mr. Gallo, for his part, is content to decorate a fairly conventional, intermittently entertaining crime chronicle with a bit of skin and a soupcon of pop sociology. There must be other ways to learn about pornography on the Internet.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten
Kind of a mess.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
This very well-acted, often amusing and dirty-minded hard-R film still stands out in a sea of market-driven blandness.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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