Bandits (2001)
Bandits (2001)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 02:02:50 | 7.26 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps; AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Crime Comedy
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 02:02:50 | 7.26 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps; AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Genre: Crime Comedy
Director Barry Levinson follows up the low-budget An Everlasting Piece (2000) with another comedy, this one of the homegrown variety from former Twin Peaks (1990) TV series writer Harley Peyton. Bruce Willis stars as suave bank robber Joe, who has escaped from prison with his hypochondriac buddy Terry (Billy Bob Thornton). Together, the two men have devised a clever scheme to take a bank officer hostage the night before a heist, then simply escort the executive to work early the next morning when they clean out the vault. Their ingenious methods have led to the men becoming media darlings dubbed "the Sleepover Bandits," but all Joe and Terry want is to make a nice pile of money before crossing the Mexican border to a life of freedom and legitimacy. Their quest gets more complicated when Terry is struck by a car driven by Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett), a bored housewife who's then forced to join their crime spree. Soon both Joe and Terry are in love with Kate and she with them, realizing that the two friends put together pretty much equal the perfect man. Bandits co-stars Troy Garity, son of actress Jane Fonda.Synopsis by Karl Williams, Allmovie.com
A comedic caper that overstays its welcome, Barry Levinson's 21st century version of Butch and Sundance pairs Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton as a disparate duo of bank robbers who fall for the same girl, played by Cate Blanchett. Much of the laughs are culled from the clash between Willis' knuckle-headed ladies' man and Thornton's brainy hypochondriac. With a failed storytelling trope that posits the beginning of the film at the end of the story and Levinson's intermittent use of digital video (presumably to create a faux-reality look), Bandits appears to be more complex than it actually is. A middling comedy done up in dramatic clothing, Bandits is unable to trade on its early gags (many of which revolve around Willis and Thornton's silly getups and references to bad '80s songs) and ultimately succumbs to its tired story line and one-note characterizations.Rachel Deahl, Allmovie.com
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Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: Harley Peyton
Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett,
Troy Garity, Brían F. O'Byrne, Stacey Travis, January Jones
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Special Features:
Inside Bandits featurette
Script To Screen - Creating Scene 71 workshop
Who's The Dad? Alternate Ending (with commentary by Cate Blanchett)
Deleted Scenes
Trailers
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