The Opportunists
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The Opportunists is a 2000 film starring Christopher Walken with an appearance by Cyndi Lauper as the New Yorker Sally Mahon. It is assigned the criteria of a comedy crime drama.
The film's protagonist is Victor 'Vic' Kelly, a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. When an old friend from Ireland visits Vic, and Vic's girlfriend offers to give up her modelling career money to aid him, the auto mechanic decides to take one last shot at a lucrative robbery with his Irish friend to try and pay of his debts. The tagline for this movie is 'Crime pays.'
The movie was nominated for an Artios Award for Best Casting For Feature Film, Independent, as well as an Open Palm Award for Myles Connell in 2000.