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Double take

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Movie propaganda

One big shot. One big mouth. The switch is on.

Touchstone Pictures' high-octane action/comedy Double take, finds successful New York investment banker Daryl Chase (Orlando Jones) suddenly on the run and having to switch identities with low-life petty thief Freddy Tiffany (Eddie Griffin). Until now, Daryl's led a charmed life. However, everything is turned upside down when he is framed for laundering millions for a Mexican drug cartel. Wanted by the FBI, and seeing no other alternative, he makes a run for the border to find the one man who can clear his name. Comedy and chaos collide when, to his horror, he discovers that his new alias, Freddy, is much higher on the fugitive food chain of most wanted criminals than he is. In this Trading places for the new millennium, Daryl finds himself in double trouble from a triple threat: he's one man with two names, fleeing from the cartel, the law - and a little dog, too!

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film crime FBI identity swap action

Persons of interest

Orlando Jones .... Daryl Chase
Eddie Griffin .... Freddy Tiffany
Gary Grubbs .... Timothy Jarret McReady
Daniel Roebuck .... Agent Norville
Sterling Macer Jr .... Agent Gradney
Benny Nieves .... Agent Martinez
Garcelle Beauvais .... Chloe
Andrea Navedo .... Maque Sanchez
Edward Herrmann .... Charles Allsworth
Shawn Elliott .... Thomas Chela/Minty Gutierrez
Brent Briscoe .... Junior Barnes
Donna Eskra .... Kiki Barnes
Carlos Carrasco .... Captain Garcia
George Gallo .... Screenwriter
George Gallo .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Studios and distributors:

Touchstone * Buena Vista International

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

The poor man's Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. Not that Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones aren't performers in their own right, it's just that once you've seen one pair of fast-talking African-American comedians in a crime flick, you've seen them all. The "twist" is that this time the fast-talking African-American comedians are on the side of the law, not the criminals.

Eddie is annoying in the way that only a loud-mouthed American [tautology - Director of Intelligence] can. Orlando is uptight in the way that only a black man in a white man's world can. That makes for some pretty painful comedy. Fortunately, there are some genuinely hilarious moments when the action, the pace and the script all come together. The women are all beautiful, armed and dangerous. The men are all bastards, but what's new about that?

Double take is a pun on a USA FBI set-up (it will be explained in the film) and the changing identities of Daryl and Freddy - while you won't want to watch this film twice in a row, you will come back for a second look, some rainy, lazy afternoon.

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