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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Barry Levinson
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Actors:
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Stacey Travis,
Azura Skye,
Bobby Slayton,
William Converse-Roberts,
Micole Mercurio,
Peggy Miley,
Anthony Burch,
Bruce Willis,
Billy Bob Thornton,
Cate Blanchett,
Troy Garity,
Brian F. O'Byrne,
January Jones,
Richard Riehle,
Scott Burkholder
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)110.5
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Plot Summary:
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Following a spur-of-the-moment escape from an Oregon slammer, proud ladies confine Joe Blake (Bruce Willis) and sensitive, hypochondriac Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) become the best-known thieves in the country. Deemed "The Sleepover Bandits," Joe and Terry unite a twist to conventional bank robberies by taking the bank manager hostage the night earlier the heist and accompanying him/her to the bank first fetish in the morning. With the ease of Joe's cousin, Harvey J. Pollard (Troy Garity), a subservient, aspiring stuntman, "The Sleepover Bandits" rob their way down to southern Californi... a with hopes of making it to Mexico. Joe and Terry's partnership and sociability is tested, however, when they each be a sucker for in love with Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett), an unhappy, unappreciated housewife who deems herself their hostage and ultimately finds herself attracted to both men. Directed nearby Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN, Bobble THE DOG), this somewhat quirky comedy features fine performances from Willis, Thornton, and Blanchett and is a pleasant departure from the typical buddy film. Levinson's framing of the story through the reports of a truthful-crime present is extremely fascinating.
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Bandits
This is generally a good movie with once again Bruce Willis providing a much neglected asset - his comedy. The beginning is good and gives you the feel of a Tarantino movie as it starts near the end of the plot and then fills you in from there onwards. The middle gets a bit dull but the end regains your attention. I feel anyone with an IQ of one can see what is going to happen but it is well done anyway. All in all a good film.
Bandits
"Is this a joke?" asks a disbelieving hostage.
"No, ma'am," comes the reply. "This is a bank robbery."
An amusing tale of larceny triumphant, Bandits is an entertainment with a rogue's imagination. The most surprising thing about this criminal history of the celebrated Sleepover Bandits, directed by Barry Levinson with his usual gift for the humanity in the human comedy, is that it manages to be surprising at all.
That's because Harley Peyton's droll script either makes references to or is reminiscent of so many movies???It Happened One Night, Bonnie and Clyde, Jules and Jim, The Odd Couple, The Ransom of Red Chief all come to mind???it's not difficult to figure out exactly where Bandits is going well before its casual, leisurely pace gets us there....
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