Amy Smart as Tracy Faucet, an experienced helicopter pilot with rage issues and Nick's love interest.Breckin Meyer as Nicholas "Nick" Schaffer, a strait-laced young attorney.Sinclair, an eccentric Las Vegas billionaire and gambling mastermind Sinclair is distraught as the donations total shoots past $19 million while the racers dance to " All Star". Nick horrifies Sinclair and his patrons by announcing that Sinclair and the gamblers will match the money raised. Once the racers see the charitable good spirit engendered they are persuaded to donate. The band and crowd mistake the money for a donation. The racers chase the balloon to a Smash Mouth charity concert. The locksmith maneuvers the balloon to drop the cow on Grisham and ties the money bag to the balloon. Outside, Sinclair's assistant Grisham and call girl Vicki are making off with the money. The racers reunite in Silver City and fight to open the locker only to find it empty. He is thrown out at Silver City station and is the first to reach the locker, only to fall asleep upon unlocking it. Enrico escapes by boarding a passing train where he drops his key in a baby's diaper and, retrieving it, is mistaken for a pedophile. Zack decides to kill Enrico to replace the missing heart. Enrico inadvertently drops the heart out of the window, whereupon it is stolen by a dog, which is then electrocuted on an electric fence.
Barbie car racing game driver#
He gets a ride from Zack, an ambulance driver delivering a transplant heart.
She uses it to attack her cheating boyfriend, then having damaged the helicopter she and Nick steal the boyfriend's truck and form a romantic relationship while driving to Silver City.Įnrico is more excited by the race than the money but falls asleep at the start, only waking hours later. Nick chooses not to participate but changes his mind when he meets Tracy Faucet, who gives him a lift in her helicopter.
When his family insist they end the trip, Randy drugs them with sleeping pills and bundles them into a semi-truck. They steal Adolf Hitler's staff car after Duane and Blaine sabotage their vehicle. Randy and his family, at the insistence of their daughter, visit a museum to Nazi Klaus Barbie, believing it to be about Barbie the doll. He escapes and steals a horse to ride to Silver City. He reveals that he is not the real driver and the enraged women chase him. He hits the cow dangling from the balloon and crashes. He impersonates the driver of a busload of Lucille Ball cosplayers. Owen is abandoned in the desert for his bad call at a football game that caused the driver to lose his bet. They steal a rocket car until it runs out of fuel, then stumble onto a busload of mental patients headed for Silver City. Merrill and Vera are given malicious directions and crash. Their car is crushed by a monster truck which they then steal. The brothers catch him and leave him and a stray cow hanging from the balloon's anchor rope. Deciding to split up to better their chances, they have a locksmith create a duplicate locker key but he overhears their plan and makes off with the key in a hot-air balloon.
Having initially agreed not to play, greed takes over and they start to race.ĭuane and Blaine destroy the airport radar, grounding everybody else but wrecking their vehicle so they steal another.
The racers consist of brothers Duane and Blaine Cody, businesswoman Merrill Jennings and her mother Vera, football referee Owen Templeton, Randy Pear and his family, narcoleptic Italian tourist Enrico Pollini, and no-nonsense attorney Nick Schaffer. Sinclair's guests place bets on who will win. He arranges for six competitors to race the 563 miles (906 km) to Silver City, New Mexico, where $2 million is in a train station locker. Įccentric tycoon Donald Sinclair devises a game to entertain the high rollers who visit his Las Vegas casino. Despite receiving mixed to negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, having grossed $85.5 million worldwide against a $48 million budget, and in recent years has developed a cult following. Produced by Fireworks Pictures, Alphaville Films and Zucker's Zucker Productions, the film was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on August 17, 2001, in the United States and Canada. Each team is given a key to the locker and the first person to reach the locker gets the money. The film centers on six teams of people who are given the task of racing 563 miles (906 km) from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with $2 million. Inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, John Cleese and Dave Thomas. Rat Race is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker.