
Beat the Devil
1953


“Meet the mother and daughter who'll love you for richer...and leave you for poorer.”
982 votes
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Director
David MirkinWriters
Streaming availability for India
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Original Language
English
Budget
$35.0M
Revenue
$57.8M
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Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. If you liked "The Hustle", "Ocean's 8" (and maybe even "Ocean's Eleven"), then you might really enjoy this. I'm not a big fan of criminal enterprise movies without a great second motivator, so for me, I see this movie as a romantic comedy that does something extra. As a romantic comedy, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jason Lee do an excellent job at their stop and go romance, with Jason Lee just basically being bemused at the entire situation and JLH kinda of just being mean for most of it. On the other end of it, while I'm les…
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