Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is an art expert who under the employ of media tycoon Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman) suffers a sling of insults and humiliations such that he plans his revenge by defrauding his employer with the help of a amateur reproductionist called the Major (Tom Courtenay) and a free-spirited Texan cowgirl (Cameron Diaz).
Playing hard to stereotypes about loud, winsome Americans, and reserved, uptight Brits, this Coen Brothers’ penned, Michael Hoffman directed comic thriller owes much to 60s crime capers and despite its relentless lack of originality, Gambit makes for an entertaining way to spend 89 minutes.
