Best Laid Plans is a 1999 American crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by Mike Barker

Mike Barker (film director)

- Filmography :*Butterfly on a Wheel *A Good Woman *To Kill a King *Lorna Doone *Best Laid Plans *The James Gang - External links :*...

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Plot

Bryce (Brolin) is a successful man who returns to his tiny hometown for a visit. While there, he runs into his old friend Nick (Nivola). The two decide to go out for the night. When they enter a bar, Bryce encounters Lissa (Witherspoon), a blonde temptress whom he eventually takes home for the night. When he awakens, Lissa informs him that she is underage and threatens to tell the police that Bryce has committed statutory rape

Statutory rape

The phrase statutory rape is a term used in some legal jurisdictions to describe sexual activities where one participant is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior...

. Bryce panics and decides to tie her up and hide her away in the basement. He then makes a call to Nick. Unbeknownst to Bryce, Lissa is actually Nick's girlfriend. The two had schemed to use Bryce's money to leave their tiny hometown.

Cast

• Reese Witherspoon
  Reese Witherspoon
  Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
  
   as Lissa
• Alessandro Nivola
  Alessandro Nivola
  Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy.-Personal life:...
  
   as Nick
• Josh Brolin
  Josh Brolin
  Josh James Brolin is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.-Early life:...
  
   as Bryce
• Terrance Howard as Jimmy
• James Marsh
  James Marsh
  James Marsh was a British chemist who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic.- Scientific work :...
  
   as Barry
• Mike Hagerty as Charlie

Awards and nominations

California on Location Awards

• 1998: Won, "Location Professional of the Year - Features" - Diane Friedman