Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- 1988
- 1h 50min
- PG
Comedy, Crime
- Frank Oz
- Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning
- Orion Pictures
- Charles Hirschhorn, Dale Launer
- Michael Ballhaus
- Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagen Fay, Frances Conroy, Nicole Calfan
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz and produced by Bernard Williams. It is a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story, whose co-writers Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning received screen credit for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, along with writer Dale Launer. Set on the French Riviera, the film stars Steve Martin and Michael Caine as two con men competing to swindle a wealthy tourist (Glenne Headly) out of $50,000.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was first released in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 5, 1988, and was later released in theaters on December 14, 1988 by Orion Pictures to positive reviews from critics, and went on to gross $42 million at the U.S. box office.