Simply enter your email address and click the subscribe button. The form can be found on the bottom right-hand corner of the website. Sign up on Knockaround’s mailing list and get 20% off your next purchase.It will pop up occasionally when you visit the website. Spin the savings wheel on the website to get a discount of up to 15% off your next order.In its opening week in Italy, it grossed $302,273. It also bombed at the box office, making less money than the cost of production. The website's consensus reads, "Well-acted, but it's too derivative." It holds a 21% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 101 reviews. Knockaround Guys received negative reviews from critics. The film was released in Italy on Novemand in the United States on October 11, 2002. The shots of the World Trade Center towers were kept in the film and never edited out. The film premiered on Septemat Oldenburg International Film Festival in Northwest Germany, three days before the September 11th attacks. Shawn Doyle as Deputy Sheriff Donny Ward.Dennis Hopper as Benny "Chains" Demaret.Matty and Taylor return the money to Benny, who says he's ready for Matty to join the organization, but Matty refuses. He tries to discreetly reload and shoot Matty, but Matty kills him first. He admits that he has been stealing from Benny and aimed to take the money and kill Matty. Realizing Teddy has really come to take the money for himself, Matty confronts him. Everyone but Taylor, Matty and Teddy is killed and Taylor is hit. Chris suddenly appears and kills the sheriff's cousin, triggering an all-out gunfight. Teddy and his associates also appear to even the odds, but the local informant, the sheriff's cousin, also arrives. Matty and Taylor are forced to go to the meet alone and encounter the sheriff and his deputy. Teddy's associates ask Johnny where Chris is realizing he has left but wanting to protect him, he says he does not know and is shot. Once he learns Matty's mob identity and fearing federal involvement, the sheriff agrees to meet with Matty for an exchange at midnight in a warehouse.įearing they are in too deep, Chris tries to convince Johnny to leave with him. Realizing that they have reached a détente, Matty calls Teddy to help. Matty and the boys try to confront them amicably, but get run off. The sheriff, against his deputy's wishes, decides to keep the money. Matty, Johnny, Taylor and Chris go to the boys' house to confront them, but the sheriff ( Tom Noonan), one of the boys' father, and his deputy ( Shawn Doyle) arrive first and confiscate the money. That night, he finds out the two teenage baggage handlers have been spending rampantly. Matty enlists his help to find anyone who might be spending a great deal of money (which was in the bag). The three look for an informant at a local bar and Taylor savagely beats a man who confronts them. Matty brings his friends Chris (also the jilted son of a mobster) and Taylor ( Vin Diesel) to help find the bag. Johnny returns to find the bag gone and calls Matty with the bad news. While inside paying for fuel, baggage handlers notice his bag is not properly tagged. Fearing he'll be questioned about the bag, he drops it among baggage to be loaded on a departing flight. When he lands in Wibaux, Montana, he is startled to find police coincidentally checking the office. Matty commissions his friend Johnny Marbles ( Seth Green) to discreetly fly to Spokane, retrieve the package and return immediately, stopping only for gas. With Teddy's help, he convinces his father to let him go to Spokane to retrieve a package, which he sees as his chance to prove he's ready to be a real partner. He is unhappy doing menial jobs for his father, who apparently does not trust him with more serious criminal business. Years later, Matty is unable to find a job because employers fear his mob boss father, Benny Chains ( Dennis Hopper). Unable to pull the trigger, Teddy tells Matty he is unfit for mob work. A young Matty Demaret ( Barry Pepper) is forced to decide whether to kill or spare the man responsible for his father's arrest by his father's associate Teddy ( John Malkovich).
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