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Bottle Rocket is a film about three not-so-smart guys who try to be criminals. The film is unpredictable and goofy. It stars Luke & Owen Wilson. 

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BOTTLE ROCKET marks the auspicious feature debut of director Wes Anderson. This lightweight road picture about a group of inept thieves has an uneven beginning but ends up charming and satisfying.

In Austin, Texas, Dignan (Owen Wilson) and Anthony (Luke Wilson) help each other escape from the mental institution in which they have been convalescing for some time. Back in their hometown, the duo enlist their friend Bob (Robert Musgrave) in a scheme to hold up a neighborhood bookstore.

After some group in-fighting, Dignan, Anthony and Bob carry out their crime and run away with the money. Later, on the road, they stop off at a motel to rest. During their stay, Anthony falls in love with Inez (Lumi Cavazos), a motel maid, and Bob abandons everyone one night. Dignan and Anthony finally leave the motel and hit the road again, but Dignan becomes furious when he learns that Anthony has given Inez most of their loot as a tip.

Dignan and Anthony split up over the "tip," but eventually they reunite with Bob in their hometown when Dignan introduces them to Mr. Henry (James Caan), a big-time thief posing as the head of a landscaping company. The three young men join Henry and his associates in the heist of a factory. The robbery goes awry, however, after one of Henry's men is accidentally shot and the police capture Dignan. Meanwhile, Henry double-crosses his team and robs from Bob's posh home during the factory heist.

Dignan goes to the state penitentiary without turning in his friends. After visiting Dignan in prison, Bob pursues a more peaceful existence, while Anthony joins Inez for less-tumultuous adventures.

Filmed mainly in Dallas, BOTTLE ROCKET captures the energy of Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHLESS by appropriating some of its stylistic strategies, including a clever use of jump cuts. Of course, BOTTLE ROCKET lacks the more bravura aspects--aesthetic and thematic--that made BREATHLESS a groundbreaker in 1959, but this new film is nearly on par with some of the other self-reflexive crime capers that have also been influenced by the French New Wave classic (including 1990's MIAMI BLUES). The focus on the troubled two-bit gangsters in all these films occasionally side-steps some larger moral questions, but the characters are, at least, refreshingly real.

After an awkward beginning, BOTTLE ROCKET picks up as a quirky, tense character study. Dignan and Anthony's overlapping-dialogue shtick in the first reel is off-putting, but, eventually, Owen and Luke Wilson (brothers playing best friends here) settle down to give strong, convincing performances. Cavazos (LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE) brings a charming presence to her scenes as the unexpected love interest, and Caan, the one star in the cast, has a few welcome moments as the head gangster (playing off his role in THIEF).

At times the low-budget film slips technically (not all of the abrupt cutting seems deliberate), but some of Robert Yeoman's photography is sharp (especially in the edgy heist scenes) and Mark Mothersbaugh's score is highly pleasing.

BOTTLE ROCKET may not be profound work, but it shows off some genuine talent both behind and in front of the camera. (Violence, sexual situations, adult situations, profanity.)  — Eric Monder from http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=37470

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