Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker, written by Andy Breckman, and stars a ensemble cast, including Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jon Lovitz, Lanei Chapman, Seth Green, Kathy Najimy, Dave Thomas, Vince Vieluf, John Cleese, Breckin Meyer, Kathy Bates, Wayne Knight, Dean Cain, and Amy Smart. The main plot revolves around six teams of people who are given their task of racing 563 miles from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station, where a storage locker contains two million dollars. The first team to reach the locker wins and gets... to keep the money. The film has a similar plot to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Scavenger Hunt. Donald Sinclair, the eccentric owner of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, devises a new game to entertain the high rollers who visit his hotel. Six special tokens are placed in the casino's slot machines, and the winners of them are gathered together and told that $2 million in cash is hidden in a duffel bag in a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico. They are told they must compete in a no-holds-barred race to get there first and claim the money.
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| Release date: | July 30, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Jerry Zucker |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Zucker, Sean Daniel, Janet Zucker |
| Editor: | Tom Lewis |
| Music by: | John Powell |
| Cinematography: | Thomas E. Ackerman |
| Screenplay by: | Andy Breckman |
| Estimated budget: | $48,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure, Action |