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| Directed by | Antoine Fuqua |
| Produced by | Sean Ryerson |
| Written by | Andrew Scheinman Adam Scheinman Tony Gilroy |
| Starring | Jamie Foxx |
| Music by | Mark Mancina |
| Studio | Castle Rock Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | September 15, 2000 |
| Running time | 119 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $51,000,000 [1] |
| Gross revenue | $15,325,969 [1] |
Bait is a 2000 comedy-crime film starring Jamie Foxx and David Morse. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua.
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Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster (who was told that nobody would get hurt) flees with the gold. He buries it, then drinks and drives, gets caught for DUI and is put in jail. He lies low in jail so that Bristol will not kill him.
Eventually, Bristol tracks him to prison; however, Jaster, who has a bad heart, for which he takes nitroglycerin, accidentally dies under interrogation. He tells Alvin Sanders (Foxx), a petty con artist incarcerated for stealing shrimp, to tell his wife (who is, unbeknownst to him, dead) to go to the Bronx Zoo, and that there's "no place like home".
Treasury agent Edgar Clenteen, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Clenteen to track Sanders and listen to his conversations.
A soundtrack was released on September 12, 2000 by Warner Bros. Records featuring rap and R&B music. The soundtrack made it #49 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
The film opened at #2 at the North American box office making $5,485,591 million USD in its opening weekend, behind The Watcher.
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