Dysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob. The short film that inspired Wes Anderson’s feature debut.
Direction
Anderson's visual voice already locked in at 24.
Writing
Dignan's 50-year-plan is peak delusional poetry.
Acting
Owen Wilson invents his whole persona here.
Director
Wes Anderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anderson maxed out credit cards and stole equipment from UT Austin to shoot this. The feature deal came after a rough cut screening made James L. Brooks cry-laugh.
This is basically a heist film made by someone who'd only read about crimes in library books. It invented 'competence porn's opposite: enthusiastic failure porn.
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