<P> Gone in 60 Seconds is a 2000 American action heist film, starring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Duvall, Vinnie Jones, and Will Patton . The film was directed by Dominic Sena, written by Scott Rosenberg, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer . The film is a loose remake of the 1974 H.B. Halicki film of the same name . </P> <P> The film was shot throughout Los Angeles and Long Beach, California . </P> <P> Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi), an aspiring car thief in Los Angeles, is working with his gang to steal fifty expensive cars for Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston), a British gangster, via Calitri's associate, Atley (Will Patton). On the last heist, their antics bring attention by the police, and they narrowly avoid capture, though are forced to abandon the warehouse and the bulk of cars they stole . Detectives Castleback (Delroy Lindo) and Drycoff (Timothy Olyphant) seize the cars and begin an investigation . </P> <P> Calitri kidnaps Kip and threatens to kill him for failing the job . Atley, sympathetic to Kip's plight, visit Kip's older brother, Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage), a former car thief having gone straight years before, and explains the situation . Memphis meets with Calitri to negotiate Kip's release, but in exchange, Calitri forces Memphis to agree to steal the fifty cars within 72 hours or else he will kill Kip . Memphis visits his mentor Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall) and they assemble a crew, including Donny Astricky (Chi McBride), (Vinnie Jones), and Sara "Sway" Wayland (Angelina Jolie), Memphis' old flame . Kip and his crew also offer to help . Knowing the police will be watchful for the thefts, Memphis suggests to steal all the cars in a twelve hour period . The group starts to identify the target cars with Memphis giving each a woman's name . He plans on stealing a 1967 Ford Shelby GT500, dubbed "Eleanor", last, as he considers the car a curse, with all previous attempts to steal one gone awry . As they scout the car locations, Memphis is approached by Castleback and Drycoff . While they cannot charge him with any crime, they warn him that they are watching his activities closely . Later, the detectives discover that some of the previous heists were done by ordering electric keys for certain vehicles, and they set up stakeouts to watch those cars . </P>

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