Gangster Movies: (ca. 2001) The son (Barry Pepper) of a mobster (Dennis Hopper) and his best friend (Seth Green) lose half a million dollars that they were sent to pick up for Pepper’s father. If Pepper is not able to get the money back, his father will be killed.

So Pepper puts the call out to his best friends who assist him in the desperate search for the money. Unfortunately, the money is somewhere in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff, and to make matter worse, the towns citizens aren’t exactly excited about Pepper and company presence.

Vin Diesel turns in a good performance as Taylor Reese and John Malkovich camps it up as a very gangster Uncle Teddy.

Although production wrapped in late 1999, the movie sat on the shelf for nearly three years before it was finally released.

When Seth Green is in the plane drinking coffee, you see him wince a little – not because the coffee is hot – but because Vin Diesel had put his cigarette out in the coffee, prior to the filming of that scene

Three actors in the film have played Tom Ripley, the character introduced by Patricia Highsmith in her 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” Dennis Hopper played Ripley in Der amerikanische Freund (1977), John Malkovich played Ripley in Ripley’s Game (2002), and Barry Pepper played Ripley in Ripley Under Ground (2005). Ripley has also been played by Alain Delon in Plein soleil (1960) and ‘Matt Damon’ in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).