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The Sting (1973)

★ 8.0 · 2,954 ratings on TMDB

...all it takes is a little confidence.

The Sting poster★ 8.0

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

DirectorGeorge Roy Hill
CastCharles Durning, Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Jack Kehoe, John Heffernan
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

The Sting keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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