The Rat Pack Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Cohen
Genres: Drama
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Shot in 33 days, this 9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank_Sinatra (Ray_Liotta), Dean_Martin (Joe_Mantegna), and Sammy_Davis_Jr. (Don_Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers, gangsters, actors, and politicans (sometimes brushing shoulders in the same rooms). The film also explores Sinatra's relationship with John_F._Kennedy (William_Peterson). Deciding to support Kennedy, Sinatra patches up his feud with Peter_Lawford (Angus_Macfadyen), since Lawford's wife, Pat (Phyllis_Lyons) is JFK's sister -- and a Sinatra-Kennedy friendship soon follows. However, when Joe Kennedy (Dan O'Herlihy) decides Sinatra's nightclub, mob and commie connections are a no-no for JFK, the patriarch's interference angers Sinatra. Meanwhile, Sammy_Davis_Jr. enters into an interracial liaison with May_Britt (Megan_Dodds), and the dynamics of the situation are visualized in an imaginative musical fantasy sequence in which Davis sees himself singing and dancing for an unresponsive line of white supremacists. Broadway's Savion_Glover stepped in with the film's choreography. Substitute singers featured the voice of Michael Dees for Sinatra and Mantegna duplicating Dino. Also covered here are the events that led to the filming of Ocean's_Eleven (1960). For an actual Rat Pack stage performance, see The Rat Pack Captured (1965). Filmed in LA, the TV movie premiered August 22, 1998 on HBO. Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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