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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Frank Oz
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
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Which is a stinky remake of an infinitely better movie : Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095031/
Does anybody else remember McDonalds selling inexpensive VHS copies of popular movies like "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with an additional food purchase, back when movies still cost a fortune?
>McDonald's Corp. will... sell Dances With Wolves for a bargain price.
As part of a special holiday promotion, McDonald's will sell the Oscar-winning movie for $7.99 with the purchase of a sandwich - at a time when video stores are selling it for its original list price, $99.98.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-11-29-9211261312-story.html
They sold several movies before "priced to own" movies became mainstream.
https://letterboxd.com/travissmcclain/list/mcdonalds-vhs-promotions/detail/
Is it just me, or does this seem terrible? Lack of a stable business key & limiting key size to 4.5 digits just seems terribly lacking in any competent database practice.
I was building ISAM database applications for small business in the early nineties, and we used 6 digit keys.. and an index to access records by.
I'm sure Raymond Chen is a nice guy, but this just makes me think of a retard stabbing his cheek when trying to eat with a fork. (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels movie.)