Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton star as con men who rob banks. They get it in their head to kidnap the bank manager the night before, hold their entire family until the next day. They steal the money, but are very polite to their victims. Cate Blanchett lives a loveless terrible marriage and happens upon the guys and ends up semi kidnapped semi working with them. She falls in love with both men.
Now I'm quite morally against bank robbery, but these characters charmed with their friendly way. They made a point not to hurt anyone and the stories of the love triangle took an interesting twist I didn't expect. Very funny and entertaining.
Library: DVD; Myrtle Point & Powers. VHS; Dora.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219965/
Amazon: Bandits
A wealthy mom, Ashley Judd, gets convicted of murdering her husband and while in prison finds out her spouse isn't dead after all. She serves her time and gets out on parole and starts tracking hm and her son down. Her parole officer, Tommy Lee Jones, tells her he doesn't want any trouble from her when he finds a picture of her little boy. She promises she'll be no problem, but soon takes off to investigate the woman she asked to take care of the child.
Jones finds her and takes her back, but she escapes by dumping his car off the ferry. Later she tracks down her husband in another state and Jones barely misses catching up to her. She ends up finding her living mister in New Orleans and demands he give her son back to her.
Very dramatic and action packed. Though the legal aspects are suspect and it's too unlikely to be real. It's a real seat of your pants whole tub of popcorn kinda flick.
Library: DVD; Bandon, Coquille, Lakeside, Myrtle Point & North Bend. VHS; Dora & Powers.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/
Amazon: Double Jeopardy
Again another charming set of criminals. Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones team up to make the biggest heist in history. They become close and as a test, steal a mask from a very fancy well secured display and give it to a man who is supposed to help with gear for the big job.
We're never sure who's trying to screw who in this tale of honor and love among thieves. I'm not really sure about a relationship between these two and, well, they could have gone to a few more acting classes. But it works well enough. It must have come out when I was in Europe in 1099 because I hadn't heard a thing about it.
Library: DVD; Bandon, Coquille & North Bend. VHS; Coquille.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/
Amazon:Entrapment (Special Edition)
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