Gambit

“A fake masterpiece. The perfect plan.”

Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is an art curator who has spent years taking orders from his abusive employer, the media tycoon Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman). His revenge is a forged Monet, and he needs a Texas rodeo queen, PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz), to help sell it. Michael Hoffman directs from a Coen brothers script, with Harry polite, rumpled and entirely sure that he is the cleverest man in the room.