Just the Ticket (film)
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| Just the Ticket | |
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 Just the Ticket theatrical poster |
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| Directed by | Richard Wenk |
| Produced by | Andy Garcia |
| Written by | Richard Wenk |
| Starring | Andy Garcia Andie MacDowell |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | 26 February 1999 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,000,000 (estimated) |
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Just the Ticket is a 1999 film starring Andy Garcia and Andie MacDowell. Garcia was also the producer. The movie was originally titled The Ticket Scalper.
[edit] Plot
Gary Starke (Garcia) is a New York ticket scalper who, in the old traditional style of scalping "works the street", known as "the walk", as opposed to the plethora of modern-day ticket brokers who ply the Internet for sales. Yet when his girlfriend Linda (MacDowell) gets enough of his lifestyle and leaves him, he decides to mend his ways and make one last big score, something that will help him win Linda back and straighten out his life. He finds his chance in an epiphanic moment; an opportunity to scalp a large stack of tickets to see the hottest show in town --- the Pope at Yankee Stadium.
[edit] Trivia
- The film was plagued by bad luck from the start. Writer/Director Richard Wenk spent many years pitching the script, and after getting the film "in the can", MGM sat on it for over a year showing it only to test audiences and finally an extremely-limited theatrical release while changing the name in the process, which in hindsight was probably the only good decision made; the film was virtually a straight-to-video release.
- Actor Fred Asparagus (who played Zeus) died of a heart attack just after the film was completed.
- The film found a cult audience in video with a DVD package including a commentary by Garcia and the director, plus a booklet about the film enclosed.
