Double Take (film)

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Double Take
Directed by	George Gallo
Produced by	David Permut Brett Ratner
Written by	Graham Greene
Starring	Eddie Griffin Orlando Jones Gary Grubbs Daniel Roebuck Sterling Macer Jr
Music by	Graeme Revell
Cinematography	Theo van de Sande
Editing by	Malcolm Campbell
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	2001
Running time	88 min.
Language	English
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Double Take is a 2001 action/comedy film starring Orlando Jones and Eddie Griffin.

Tagline: One big shot. One big mouth. The switch is on.

[edit] Plot

Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York firm. Chase discovers to his surprise that one of his biggest clients, a company from Mexico, is actually a front for a cartel of drug smugglers; he realizes too late that he's been framed for money laundering, and is now wanted by the FBI. Chase is soon approached by a CIA agent, who thinks Chase's relationship with the Mexican drug kingpins might prove useful, but when his local contact disappears, Chase has to make his way to Mexico in order to save his skin and hopefully clear his name. Needing a new identity to get out of town and across the border, Chase obtains a stolen passport— and soon learns the man whose name he's using is in even deeper trouble with the law than himself. With nowhere else to turn, Chase asks streetwise hustler Freddie Tiffany (Griffin) to help him get out of town; Chase pretends to be Freddie, while Tiffany will pose as a businessman like Chase. However, Chase finds out Tiffany isn't the man he thought he was, and that his sticky situation is even more perilous and fraught with secrets than he imagined.

Double Take was inspired by the 1957 drama Across the Bridge, which was in turn based on a novel by Graham Greene; the supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Garcelle Beauvais, and Daniel Roebuck.