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Who is Cletis Tout?

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Tied to a chair in a seedy hotel room, Trevor Finch (Christian Slater) is held hostage by Critical Jim (Tim Allen), a hit-man with a big heart and a passion for old movies. Critical Jim thinks he is holding Cletis Tout, a man the mob has hired him to kill. He's got Tout, and he wants to get paid. The place: Gladstone Hotel, #8. His demands: Transfer funds to his account #M (like McQueen) 01226226 F (as in Fonda), T (as in Tracey), K (as in Kubrick). They've got 90 minutes to pay him and get to the hotel or he lets Tout go.

Finch tries to convince Jim he's not Cletis Tout, but the many pieces of ID with his photo and Tout's name on them prove otherwise. In order to save his life, Finch must convince Jim that it's a case of mistaken identity. So, playing into Jim's love of celluloid, Finch "pitches" his story with all of the elements of a perfect screenplay: A prison break, a jewel heist, a girl. Finch begins...