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Article: `Bank Robber': a good idea that soon turns hopeless
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 3, 1993
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BANK ROBBER
Directed and written by: Nick Mead
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Bonet, Olivia D'Abo,
Forest Whitaker, Judge Reinhold
Playing at: Charles
Rated: NC-17 (violence, sex scenes, language)
This is an expanded version of the review published here
when this film was premiered at this year's Boston Film
Festival.
There's the germ of a promising comic idea in "Bank Robber," but
it's soon run into the ground, swamped by rampant ineptitude. The
idea is to set Patrick Dempsey up as a bank robber named Billy who
actually succeeds in getting away from a bank with a bagful of money
after entering with a gun concealed in a bouquet of roses. But from
that point on, ...