Bait is a 2000 action comedy starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse and Doug Hutchison. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua. This article is about the year 2000. ... // Rise of the Action movie The genre, although popular since the 50s, did not become one of the most dominant forms in Hollywood until the 1980s and 1990s, when it was popularised by actors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx (born Eric Morlon Bishop Jr. ... David Morse (born October 11, 1953 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is an American stage, television, and cinema actor. ... Doug Hutchison is an American actor born 26 May 1960 in Dover, Delaware. ... Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966 in Pittsburgh) is an African-American film director of such films as The Replacement Killers with Chow Yun Fat, Training Day with Denzel Washington, Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis and King Arthur with Clive Owen. ...

Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster flees with the gold and is eventually caught. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Robert Pastorelli (June 21, 1954 – March 8, 2004) was an American actor from New Brunswick, New Jersey. ... A precious metal is a rare metallic element of high, durable economic value. ...

Foxx plays Alvin Sanders, a petty con artist incarcerated with Jaster, who dies in prison from heart failure. Treasury agent Edgar Cleenton, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Cleenton to track and him and listen to all his conversations. A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ...

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