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Rat Race is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker.Inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, [3] the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, John Cleese and Dave Thomas.
He also played in a made-for-TV movie called Snow Wonder. Vieluf has also appeared on the television hits ER and Friends. In 2006 he had a role in the suspense thriller Firewall as vicious henchman Pim. Vieluf played the dumbfound Blaine Cody in the 2001 comedy Rat Race. Before Rat Race, Vieluf appeared in An American Werewolf in Paris and Clay ...
In 2001, she co-starred in the hit comedy film Rat Race alongside John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz and Seth Green. She has made four movies with Goldberg (Soapdish, Sister Act 1 and 2, and Rat Race). Najimy starred in Disney and Pixar's Academy Award winning film WALL-E and Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.
The Rat Race is a 1960 American drama film adapted from the play of the same name by Garson Kanin. Directed by Robert Mulligan, it stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as struggling young entertainment professionals in New York City. Filming took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
He had his breakout with the lead role in the sex comedy film Road Trip (2000). Meyer followed this with starring roles in the films Rat Race (2001), Kate & Leopold (2001), and Pinocchio (2002). He received further recognition for his role as Jon Arbuckle in Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006).
The first of the credited cast to die was ZaSu Pitts, who died on June 7, 1963, five months to the day before the film's release. With the death of Carl Reiner on June 29, 2020, [12] and Nicholas Georgiade on December 19, 2021, [13] Barrie Chase is the film's last surviving cast member, credited or otherwise.
The film was a box office hit, grossing over $50 million worldwide. [14] Also in 2005, she starred as Sarah in the British independent film The Best Man with Seth Green. She had a lead role in the independent drama Bigger Than the Sky (2005), a loose adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. [15] Smart appeared in the 2006 action thriller film Crank.
Zucker's most recent directorial effort is the 2001 film Rat Race. Zucker's films have been ranked among the greatest comedies of all time: Airplane! was ranked at the top of Entertainment Weekly's list of best comedy films and AFI listed it as #10; Top Secret! made Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 list. [7]