Rating: NNN
1,]?AKERS (David Mirkin) suffers from a failure of nerve — it’s a black comedy with a redemptive ending. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt star as a mother-daughter team of con artists trying to pull “one last score” so Hewitt, who doubts her mother’s ability to hook big rich fish at her age, can set out on her own. Think The Sting in stilettos. Their last victim, though, turns out to be Gene Hackman as a chain-smoking, liver-spotted tobacco billionaire, and he’s the film’s hilarious wild card, a man who interrupts his foreplay with coughing spasms. Hackman is hilarious, and Weaver is good except when she goes all gooey. Fine support from Ray Liotta and Jason Lee, and better support from Hewitt’s tiny bits of wardrobe. 110 minutes. Rating: NNN
