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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Opportunists&lt;/em&gt; is dominated by the weird fascination Christopher Walken exerts as a New York safecracker trying to go straight, but it also gives Cyndi Lauper &amp;#x2014; where&amp;apos;s she been? &amp;#x2014; a chance to show acting chops maybe you didn&amp;apos;t know she had. Perhaps you&amp;apos;re still holding Vibes against her. That vile 1988 comedy certainly stalled the singer&amp;apos;s film career. Lauper&amp;apos;s role isn&amp;apos;t much in this modestly made and modestly charming caper flick from writer-director Myles Connell. She plays Sally, a bar owner who loves Vic (Walken) and tries to keep him from getting involved in a heist organized by Michael (the excellent Peter McDonald), a visitor from Ireland who claims to be Vic&amp;apos;s cousin. The real fun comes in watching Lauper spar with Walken and hold her own nicely, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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