Karen Allen plays the American beauty whose charms derail the best-laid
scams of an incorrigible con man in Sweet Talker (New Line), an airy
comedy about love, greed, ecology and economic exploitation in
Australia. Bryan Brown is the ex-con who steals a former cellmate's
plans for gleaning big profits from the citizens of a scenic coastal
village, supposedly near the site of an ancient shipwreck. The specifics
don't much matter. Sweet Talker's tricky plot is contrived, but Allen
and Brown are an unfailingly appealing duo with strong
backing -- especially from the precocious lad (Justin Rosniak) who plays
Allen's son without being too cute about it.
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