Rick (film)

Rick is a 2003 movie based on Verdi's opera Rigoletto. Rick stars Bill Pullman and Aaron Stanford. It is directed by Curtiss Clayton and written by Daniel Handler.

Plot summary

The film chronicles the tragic fall of a cursed Wall Street second banana, Rick O'Lette.

Cast

Bill Pullman as Rick O'Lette
Aaron Stanford as Duke (Rick's young boss)
Agnes Bruckner as Eve O'Lette (Rick's daughter)
Sandra Oh as Michelle
Dylan Baker as Buck (Rick's sinister "friend")

Writer Daniel Handler also makes a cameo appearance as the Perky Waiter and Dennis Parlato plays the BusinessTalk Anchor.

Music

The main score is by Ted Reichman.

External links

Works of Daniel Handler

Novels	The Basic Eight Watch Your Mouth Adverbs Why We Broke Up

Screenplays	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (source material) Rick Kill the Poor

See also	Lemony Snicket

Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto

Source	Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo

Films	A Fool's Revenge (1909) Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956) Rigoletto (1993) Rick (2003) Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story (2005)

Music	"La donna è mobile"

Related	Rigoletto discography "Here" "Juanita Banana"

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