2006 · romance · comedy · drama
The Alibi
Directed by Kurt Mattila, Matt Checkowski1h 30m2006
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.
Our read: The Alibi (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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