Rat City

Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker and written by Andy Breckman. Inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf and Dave Thomas. In the film, six teams of people are given the task of racing from a casino in Las Vegas to a train station in Silver City, New Mexico, where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with $2 million. Each team is given a key to the locker, and the first person to reach the locker wins and gets to keep the money. Produced by Alphaville Films, and Zucker Productions, Rat Race was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures and Fireworks Pictures on August 17, 2001 in the United States and Canada. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, having grossed $85.5 million worldwide against a $48 million budget.