Safe Men 1998

Sam, Sam Rockwell and Eddie, Steve Zahn are two struggling musicians who are unwittingly recruited as professional safe-crackers by a local mobster. Veal Chop, Paul Giamatti spots them in a bar and mistakes them for the real deal.

Veal Chop coerces Sam and Eddie into breaking into the home of an older man to crack his safes for easy money; in reality it is Bernie Gayle, Michael Lerner, the boss behind a fencing operation. He threatens to contact police if they don’t comply and gives them a tight deadline to crack three safes.

While the would‑be thieves try to hide their incompetence, Sam falls for Hannah, Christina Kirk, the daughter of a fence whose operation is run by Good Stuff Leo, Harvey Fierstein. She invites him to her family’s Rosh Hashanah celebration the next day.

Sam and Eddie struggle to crack the next safe. Bernie reprimands them, but later reveals a twist: the actual safe-crackers, Mitchell and Frank, had already opened the safe, and Bernie had misattributed the feat to Sam and Eddie just to dodge the truth.

At the party, Good Stuff Leo shares a tale about a client who bought highly flammable slacks that caught fire at a barbecue, a story that hangs in the air as Sam and Hannah’s romance is tested by secrecy and crime.

Sam’s attempt to date Hannah continues, but her ex, Frank, Mark Ruffalo, arrives with a boombox blaring a song, and she rejects him again.

Later, Sam and Eddie are ordered to break into the temple’s safe while Bernie Jr. reads the Torah for his bar mitzvah. Eddie, who has been studying his father’s safe‑cracking book, manages to open the temple safe, but Bernie then insists they also break into Leo’s office safe. When Sam tells Hannah the news, she breaks up with him.

With the odds stacked, the two friends manage to crack the safes and beat Mitchell Josh Pais and Frank Mark Ruffalo to the prize, reclaiming the 94’ Stanley Cup they had left at Bernie’s. Hannah learns it was Sam’s idea all along, and that Leo has sent a heav y to break Sam’s collar bone, prompting her to hurry to the bar mitzvah.

At the bar mitzvah, Hannah persuades Leflore, Peter Dinklage, to back off, and the couple reconcile. Earlier, Sam discovers Eddie has decided to join Mitchell and Frank’s crew.