History Film / ThreeThousandMilesToGraceland

* TakingTheBullet: In the warehouse shootout, [[spoiler:Jack takes Quigley's sniper shot that was meant for Murphy, but at the cost of his life]].

Michael Zane (Russell) and four other criminals -- Thomas J. Murphy (Costner), Hanson (Creator/ChristianSlater), Gus (Creator/DavidArquette), and Franklin (Creator/BokeemWoodbine) -- execute a heist in which they steal $3.2 million from the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas by dressing up as {{Elvis Impersonator}}s whilst the casino hosts International Elvis Week, thereby making it difficult to identify them since hundreds of people in the building would be dressed in the same manner. The heist is successful, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst but when Franklin is killed]], a dispute occurs over how his share should be divided among the survivors. It isn't long before it's just Michael and Murphy; with the latter pursuing the former across the western United States as he flees both with the money and with a woman named Cybil Waingrow (Cox), with whom he has fallen in love, and her son Jesse.

* RuleOfCool: Tries to invoke this with hyperactive cutting and an attempt at RatedMForManly, but the consensus is that it fails.

->[[caption-width-right:300:No, ''cash'' is king.]]

The film clearly attempts to emulate the style of Creator/QuentinTarantino.

* CastingGag: Michael Zane disguises himself as Elvis during his heist at the Riveria Casino. His actor Creator/KurtRussell played Elvis himself in the 1979 TV biopic of the same name.

* ScaryScorpions: The film opens with a CGI-animated pair of metallic-looking scorpions with large teeth battling each other to the death.

''3000 Miles to Graceland'' is a 2001 crime/action film directed and co-written by Creator/DemianLichtenstein, starring Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/KevinCostner, and Creator/CourteneyCox.

* ThoseTwoGuys: The two FBI agents pursuing the robbers, played by Creator/ThomasHaydenChurch and Creator/KevinPollak, are competent investigators who spend most of their time bantering. If you watched just their scenes of the film, you'd swear it was a pilot for a buddy cop show starring them.

** [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking It goes the other way, too]], with Murphy's defining character traits being (as Roger Ebert [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/3000-miles-to-graceland-2001 put it]]) that he "chain-smokes and looks mean."

* ThoseTwoGuys: The two FBI agents pursuing the robbers, played by Thomas Haden Church and Kevin Pollak, are competent investigators who spend most of their time bantering. If you watched just their scenes of the film, you'd swear it was a pilot for a buddy cop show starring them.

''3000 Miles to Graceland'' is a 2001 crime/action film directed and co-written by Demian Lichtenstein, starring Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/KevinCostner, and Creator/CourteneyCox.

Michael Zane (Russell) and four other criminals -- Thomas J. Murphy (Costner), Hanson (Creator/ChristianSlater), Gus (David Arquette), and Franklin (Bokeem Woodbine) -- execute a heist in which they steal $3.2 million from the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas by dressing up as {{Elvis Impersonator}}s whilst the casino hosts International Elvis Week, thereby making it difficult to identify them since hundreds of people in the building would be dressed in the same manner. The heist is successful, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst but when Franklin is killed]], a dispute occurs over how his share should be divided among the survivors. It isn't long before it's just Michael and Murphy; with the latter pursuing the former across the western United States as he flees both with the money and with a woman named Cybil Waingrow (Cox), with whom he has fallen in love, and her son Jesse.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Michael and Murphy are actually half-brothers, with Elvis as their common father. While both are professional robbers, Murphy is a stone-cold psychopath while Michael is a lot more restrained.]]

* MaleGaze: There's a shot focusing on Cybil's rear when she gets up on a step ladder to collect Michael's wallet from the crawlspace in her ceiling.

* MythologyGag: The manner in which [[spoiler:Murphy dies at the end of the final gunfight (leaning against the wall in the bathroom of the warehouse)]] evokes the same manner in which the real Elvis was found after he died.

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* InstantSeduction: In the opening scene, Michael meets Cybil, and after a few minutes of talking and a cup of coffee, they resort to having raunchy sex in her bedroom. Lampshaded by Cybil beforehand, where she tells Michael it will take more than "a cup of coffee and a plate of chow" to bed her.

* MaleGaze: There's a shot focusing on Cybil's rear when she gets up on a step ladder to collect something from the crawlspace in her ceiling.
%%* MsFanservice: Courteney Cox
* NoHonorAmongThieves: What basically sets the film's story in motion. It says something about how cutthroat they are when the main villain isn't the most dishonorable among the group (Hanson tries to take part of Franklin's share), although he shoots Gus (fatally) and Michael (non-fatally) anyway.

%%* ScaryScorpions

%%* TheSociopath: Murphy, in spades.

* VillainousFriendship: Murphy and the helicopter pilot Jack have a surprisingly sincere one. Murphy is pretty defensive of his importance to the crew early on, while Jack remains loyal to Murphy throughout the whole movie and [[spoiler:ends up taking a bullet for him]]. Moreover, Murphy clearly regrets [[spoiler:seeing his friend going down]].

* AntiVillain: Despite being a thief, Michael is more humane than the others; he doesn't take lives during the casino shootout, opting to knock guards out or back them away with suppressive fire.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Franklin, the African-American member of Murphy's gang, gets killed just as they are about to make their getaway with the money. Even Creator/RogerEbert in his review couldn't hide his disdain for the movie invoking it.

%%* FiveBadBand: The thieves:
%%** The BigBad: Murphy
%%** TheDragon: Michael
%%** TheBrute: Franklin
%%** The EvilGenius: Hanson
%%** The DarkChick: Gus

* ElvisImpersonator: The robbers dress up as Elvis impersonators to avoid getting caught.

* VillainousFriendship: Murphy and the helicopter pilot Jack have a surprisingly sincere one. Murphy is pretty defensive of his importance to the crew early on, while Jack remains loyal to Murphy throughout the whole movie and ends up taking a bullet for him. Moreover, Murphy clearly regrets seeing his friend going down.

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* MaleGaze: There's a shot focusing on Cybil's rear.

* BulletproofVest: How Michael survives Murphy's shots. [[spoiler: Twice.]]

%%* ElvisImpersonator

%%* VillainProtagonist

''3000 Miles to Graceland'' is a 2001 action film directed and cowritten by Demian Lichtenstein, starring Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/KevinCostner and Creator/CourteneyCox.

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->[[caption-width-right:338:No, ''cash'' is king.]]

''3000 Miles to Graceland'' is a 2001 action film directed by Demian Lichtenstein, and starring Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/KevinCostner and Creator/CourteneyCox.