Watch Safe Men (1998) Free Online

Release Date: 1998

Cast: Harvey Fierstein, Josh Pais, John Hamburg, Michael Schmidt, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Christina Kirk, Peter Dinklage, Michael Showalter, Steve Zahn, Sam Rockwell

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Heist, Crime Comedy, Comedy, Farce, Buddy film, Comedy of Errors

Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti). Safe Men was the debut film by Hamburg, who went on to write screenplays for such films as Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Along Came Polly which he also directed. In August 1998, The New York Times called it a "low-energy comedy with sufficient signs of willingness to stray... MORE

Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner) and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop (Paul Giamatti). Safe Men was the debut film by Hamburg, who went on to write screenplays for such films as Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Along Came Polly which he also directed. In August 1998, The New York Times called it a "low-energy comedy with sufficient signs of willingness to stray off the beaten track to indicate that somewhere down the line its writer and director, John Hamburg, will create something far better." Roger Ebert gave the film (one star out of four), saying it "whirls wildly from one bright idea to the next, trying to find a combo that will hold the movie together. No luck." Mick LaSalle gave it "There's no dramatic urgency, no distinct point of view, no question of plot to keep an audience interested. All Safe Men has is the charm of the actors and the occasional friskiness of the writing. That's almost enough to keep the picture alive, minute by minute. Alive LESS