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An off-beat and uneven comedy with some excellent sections. Lucas (Nick Nolte) has just got out of jail and innocently goes to a bank to open an account.
Unfortunately, just at this moment, Ned (Martin Short) tries to rob the bank and he takes Lucas hostage. The police assume Lucas and Ned are working together, so Lucas has to escape with Ned. Ned is also responsible for a small daughter Meg (Sarah Rowland Doroff) ... Ned was robbing the bank to get money for her education ... yeah right. Lucas and Meg form an instant bond, but the three of them have to go on the run to retain their freedom, and Ned is induced to pretend to be a woman, as the police are looking for two men and a little girl.
His efforts at femininity are far from perfect ...
A very funny sequence in the film is early on, when the inept crook gets a briefcase filled with money. The teller has to throw it back over the security screen at the bank; but in being thrown the briefcase gets caught in a chandelier. The crook, who is on the short side, struggles for a moment to jump up and reach the briefcase, without any success; so he orders the teller to come out and do so; as the teller appears, we see that he is even shorter than the crook himself.
The film is a remake of the French Les fugitifs, of 1986.
HF November 2003
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