Rat Race
A Las Vegas casino owner desperate for a new 'event' to wager on invents a human race for cash. The competitors are Owen who ends up driving a bus full of Lucille Ball imitators, a foreigner who hitches a ride in an organ donor vehicle, and a recently reunited mother and daughter who anger a 'squirrel lady', much to their regret. There are also two con artist brothers, the upright Nick, who gets a lift from cute but psychotic pilot Tracy, and the eccentric Pear family.
16 December 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 May 1964, Maryland, USA
31 May 1991, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
6 April 1964, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
9 January 1967, Santa Clara, California, USA
3 July 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 September 1956, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
December 28, 2010
Vulgar and lowbrow, but very funny.
November 01, 2006
Manic, messy, and for the most part silly, this road comedy marks Zucker's bumpy return to the genre after a number of equally bumpy dramas such as First Knight.
August 21, 2001
A few decent running gags ... and an ocean of bad ones.
January 04, 2005
Oh, you dirty rat!
August 17, 2001
It's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier.
August 27, 2001
An overheated, underdone farce.
August 17, 2001
Rat Race is much funnier than most comedies currently in release -- compared with American Pie 2 ... But ultimately it falls just short of the finish line.
August 17, 2001
Race, which delights in bashing all manner of transportation, hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.
September 12, 2007
Ruthlessly dumb people--but funny, too.
April 08, 2003
Some great moments, but with the talent on offer, this film should have broken ribs.
January 06, 2002
Fitfully amusing farce.
January 29, 2005
... the only real surprise is how genuinely dreadful a movie that aims only for pleasant, profitable mediocrity can be.
