With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
Acting
Murray's exhausted everyman, Davis's unhinged competence, Quaid's glorious breakdowns.
Direction
Murray co-directed—explains the precise calibration of comic suffering.
Writing
Escalation as architecture: each escape route funnier than the last.
Director
Howard Franklin
Bill Murray
Grimm
Geena Davis
Phyllis Potter
Randy Quaid
Loomis
Jason Robards
Chief Rotzinger
Stanley Tucci
Johnny
Phil Hartman
Hal Edison
Kathryn Grody
Mrs. Edison
Tony Shalhoub
Cab Driver
Philip Bosco
Bus Driver
Steve Park
Kim, Grocery Cashier
Kurtwood Smith
Russ Crane / Lombino
Victor Argo
Skelton
Richard Joseph Paul
Lt. Jameson
Davenia McFadden
Policewoman
Stuart Rudin
Bus Rider with Guitar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Bill Murray's only co-directing credit; Howard Franklin later said Murray did most of the work but refused sole credit out of loyalty.
Released months after GOODFELLAS, this is the grungy, incompetent flipside of 1990 mob cinema—organized crime for people who can't organize anything.
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