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""Did you just let Screech into the fucking club? I'm waiting in line, and you just let Screech into the fucking club.""

- Rickie

Jon Favreau plays a down-trodden amateur boxer who spends nights escorting his stripper girlfriend, played by Famke Janssen. Unfortunately, whenever a client gets rough with the girl, Bobby gets rough with the client, so his boss decides to let Bobby into his criminal enterprises. Bobby is dispatched to New York City to participate in a drop. As usual, Bobby takes the opportunity to help out his deadbeat best friend (Vince Vaughn). The pair's tumultuous relationship and clueless attempts to be New York gangsters carry most of the plot.

The film was Favreau's directorial debut, and was largely marketed as a Spiritual Successor to his and Vaughn's previous work on Swingers. It is generally well-regarded, but never received a major release and did not achieve nearly the cultural status of its predecessor.


 * All Bikers Are Hells Angels: Ruiz has a number of black outlaw bikers under his command.
 * Dumbass Has a Point: Rickie is so overbearing that it's easy for Bobby to ignore a lot of what he says, but Bobby actually bows to some of his logic, for better or worse. He also predicts the need for a firearm during the deal.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Bobby and Rickie have been best friends since at least high school. At the end they have clearly formed a nuclear family with Bobby's adopted daughter.
 * Hookers and Blow: Janssen's character plays a part in this trope after the protagonist's return to L.A.
 * The Irish Mob: The pair's job involves meeting an Irish gangster, from Ireland, and doing a deal. A rival faction of Irish gangsters also become involved. Bobby and Rickie argue whether the rival gang are the legendary Westies.
 * The Mafia: It's implied that Falk's character is in the Mafia, though it's never stated outright.
 * The Millstone: Rickie. He plays the part so well that it makes the film teeter between hilariously painful and too hard to watch.
 * Non-Indicative Name: The Welshman is not Welsh.
 * Pet the Dog: Rickie is obnoxious, but he's not a bad guy. We learn that Bobby sticks with him because Rickie chose to be expelled from high school rather than rat him out. In the end, Rickie treats Bobby's daughter with kindness and helps raise her.
 * Scary Black Man: Ruiz, played by Sean "Puff Daddy Combs.
 * Suck E. Cheese's: The ends with a birthday party at an unnamed Suck E. Cheese's restaurant. Vince Vaughn criticizes a costumed employee for arriving only after the children have all left for the arcade, then offers him a bribe to go away.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: A great portion of the running time and comedy is the two main character arguing and coming to blows about every single little detail of their adventure.