Pros & Cons

Watch Movie

Pros & Cons

"An awkward accountant winds up in jail and accidentally gains a reputation as a tough guy."

1999

1h 44m

2.8(4 votes)

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Overview

Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

38 members

Acting

Larry Miller

Ben Babbitt

Acting

Tommy Davidson

Ron Carter

Acting

Delroy Lindo

Kyle

Acting

Andre Rosey Brown

Big Jim

Acting

Bill Lee Brown

FBI Agent Rooney

Acting

Eddie Driscoll

FBI Agent Driscoll

Acting

Christine Ebersole

Kathy Stanford

Acting

Mike Grief

Prison Chef

No Image

Acting

Wayne Knight

Wayne the Guard

Acting

Jerry Seinfeld

Prison Man #2

Acting

Paul Reiser

Prison Man #1

Acting

Darren McGavin

Mr. Stanford

Acting

David Rasche

Jack Stanford

Acting

Samaria Graham

Pam Carter

Acting

Steve Kramer

Sergeant 1

Acting

Julie Warner

Eileen

Acting

Cathy Ladman

Marie

Acting

David Franco

Giorgio

Acting

Irene Roseen

Judge

Acting

Adam Consolo

Tom the Attorney

No Image

Acting

Sylvester Terkay

Prison Van Guard

Acting

Rick Cramer

Nazi

Acting

Michael Rose

John

Acting

John Cirigliano

White Con

No Image

Acting

Nynno Ahli

First Gangster

Acting

Derek Basco

Korean Joe

Acting

Dennis Dun

Kim the Gang Leader

Acting

Edith Grant

Wakeesha

No Image

Acting

Lisa Jeffrey

Carla

No Image

Acting

Butch Klein

Gay White Man

Acting

LeJon Stewart

Prison Gang Member

Acting

Phil Nee

Sergeant 2

Acting

Emilio Rivera

Con 1

Acting

Terry Sweeney

Decorator

No Image

Acting

Steve Adell

Ira the Prison Guard

No Image

Acting

Tim Cowgill

Prison Guard

No Image

Crew

Barbara Anne Klein

Party Guest (uncredited)

Acting

Steffon Sam

Black Con

No Image

Recommended Movies

6.0

2000

Where the Money Is

Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.

Movie

6.1

1988

Things Change

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

Movie

6.2

2003

Intermission

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

Movie

5.9

2021

Breaking News in Yuba County

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

Movie

5.8

2012

Small Apartments

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

Movie

6.1

1994

Amateur

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

Movie

7.3

2018

Blindspotting

Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

Movie

5.9

1999

Thick as Thieves

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.

Movie

5.9

2005

One Last Thing...

Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.

Movie

6.5

1977

Fun with Dick and Jane

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Movie

6.4

2009

Defendor

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.

Movie

6.2

2000

Panic

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.

Movie

6.7

1996

Bottle Rocket

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

Movie

6.3

2001

Greenfingers

Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts the attention of flamboyant gardening expert Georgina Woodhouse, she offers to sponsor the inmates in an upcoming flower show. At the Hampton Court Flower Show, Colin meets Georgina's daughter and romance is in bloom.

Movie

6.5

2012

Thin Ice

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

Movie

6.5

1980

Stir Crazy

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Movie

6.1

2001

Heartbreakers

Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.

Movie

6.2

1989

True Believer

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.

Movie

7.5

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

Movie

6.8

2013

Siberian Education

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

Movie