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Article: `Bank Robber' Clear Case Of Arrested Development
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 14, 1993
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Bank Robber
(STAR)
BillyPatrick Dempsey
PriscillaLisa Bonet
SelinaOlivia D'Abo
Directed by Nick Mead. Running time: 105 minutes. Classified NC-17
(no one 16 or younger admitted). Now showing at Pipers Alley.
`Bank Robber" is found guilty of aggravated assault of film
sensibilities and sentenced to the bottom shelves at video stores.
Writer-director Nick Mead apparently hasn't progressed from the
years when he shot commercials and made music videos for the likes of
Uriah Heep and Motorhead. His snide approach to pop-culture satire
takes the form of juvenile in-jokes as a two-bit bank robber becomes
a minor media celebrity.
"Billy the Kid" steals 10 grand during a solo ...