A Las Vegas casino owner desperate for a new 'event' to wager on invents a human race for cash. The competitors are Owen who ends up driving a bus full of Lucille Ball imitators, a foreigner who hitches a ride in an organ donor vehicle, and a recently reunited mother and daughter who anger a 'squirrel lady', much to their regret. There are also two con artist brothers, the upright Nick, who gets a lift from cute but psychotic pilot Tracy, and the eccentric Pear family.
18 November 1962, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
19 December 1962, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6 June 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
20 May 1964, Maryland, USA
19 March 1960, Sacramento, California, USA
2 January 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
7 August 1955, Cartersville, Georgia, USA
31 May 1991, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
20 May 1949, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
December 28, 2010
Vulgar and lowbrow, but very funny.
August 21, 2001
A few decent running gags ... and an ocean of bad ones.
August 17, 2001
Race, which delights in bashing all manner of transportation, hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.
January 06, 2002
Fitfully amusing farce.
August 17, 2001
It's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier.
January 29, 2005
... the only real surprise is how genuinely dreadful a movie that aims only for pleasant, profitable mediocrity can be.
January 04, 2005
Oh, you dirty rat!
November 01, 2006
Manic, messy, and for the most part silly, this road comedy marks Zucker's bumpy return to the genre after a number of equally bumpy dramas such as First Knight.
September 12, 2007
Ruthlessly dumb people--but funny, too.
April 08, 2003
Some great moments, but with the talent on offer, this film should have broken ribs.
August 27, 2001
An overheated, underdone farce.
August 17, 2001
Rat Race is much funnier than most comedies currently in release -- compared with American Pie 2 ... But ultimately it falls just short of the finish line.
