She becomes ensnared in the trap of
his gang of con men when she decides to help Billy (Steven Goldstein), a patient who informs her during a session that his life is being threatened by mobsters he owes money to.
George Clooney comes on like a goofball Clark Gable as the fast - talking but slow - witted convict Everett, a greasy
con -
man who escapes from a chain
gang, dragging along a couple
of dim bulbs (a tetchy John Turturro and a sweetly stupid Tim Blake Nelson, both
of whom spend much
of the film with mouths agape and eyes glazed over).