Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker. The story is about six teams of people given a task of racing from a Las Vegas casino to a train station in New Mexico, where a storage locker contains a large amount of money; the first team to reach the locker wins and gets to keep the money. Unbeknownst to them, however, they are actually just part of a betting game. It is a loose remake of the earlier film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.