As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
Simpatico has generally received negative reviews.
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Simpatico was released in 1999 and has generally received negative reviews.
Online reviewers have written 37 reviews, giving Simpatico (1999) an average rating of 37%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 56% and users giving an average score of 53%.
With a score of 37%, Simpatico is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like Wing Commander and Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
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