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Worthy of being better known, but not great.


This is a good movie held up by some top actors, including William Forsythe, who is one of the best actors I've seen, but it isn't a great movie, it doesn't quite make it.

It has a very nice score running all through it, but it seems strangely derivative, can anyone tell me what they ripped it off from?

In the scene where they meet the truck at the supermarket, when he grabs the tennis ball off the dashboard they are playing half a page of music directly and unaltered from The Pink Panther. That kind of thievery really de-legitimizes the whole show.

The music ties it all together in a kind of funny way.

It has some good low-key humor in it, like the scene where the woman goes to his house and bangs on his window. When he slides it open, she says, "I tried to call you but your number was disconnected." He replies, "Yeah, I'm, uh, changing carriers."

There is a fantastically sexy and unknown good actress in this named Bridgit Ryan.

The theme of this is not unlike Take the Money and Run or other dimwitted criminal stories, but the way this tries to do it with folksy music and quaint characters is kind of a high concept that doesn't really work here.

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