Fast Getaway (1991)

An interesting film about a father and son who specialise in bank robberies. There's not much attempt at a coherent plot, and the film owes a lot to The Dukes of Hazzard in its style.

After the setting up stage of the film, they go to a Post Office in a small rural town. The son, Nelson, played by Corey Haim, dresses as a young woman and enters the Post Office.

Nelson leads the clerk on and lures him into lowering his defences. The father then comes in and completes the theft, pretending to hold the "girl" as a hostage.

While they are escaping from the police, they are trapped on a narrow suspension bridge across a deep ravine. There seems to be no escape but Nelson persuades his father to lower themselves on a wire rope (for maintenance of the bridge). The father is terrified but is persuaded by Nelson; at this stage (in picture) it seems to be the actual actors and the father looks scared stiff. The winch eventually lets them fall almost freely, but jams with them some distance above the water. But they manage to drop down into the river and escape.

This episode, lasting about ten minutes, is unrelated to the rest of the film and there is no suggestion that Nelson is a regular transvestite. But three years later, Corey Haim played Chris in Anything For Love, in which he pretended to be a girl to avoid bullying at high school.

HF April 2007

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