Quick Change (1990)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Directors:

Howard Franklin
Bill Murray

Writers (WGA):

Jay Cronley (book)
Howard Franklin (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 July 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

The bank robbery was easy. But getting out of New York was a nightmare.

Plot:

Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Girlfriend | New York | Clown | Airport

Cast

Bill Murray	...	Grimm
Dale Grand	...	Street Barker (as Dale Grand Esq.)
Bob Elliott	...	Bank Guard
Geena Davis	...	Phyllis Potter
Randy Quaid	...	Loomis
Kimberleigh Aarn	...	Bank Teller
Ron Ryan	...	Bank Customer
Brian McConnachie	...	Bank Manager
Jack Gilpin	...	Yuppie Hostage
Jordan Cael	...	Hostage
Rhe DeVille	...	Hostage
Marya D. Dornya	...	Hostage
Barbara Flynn	...	Hostage
Elizabeth A. Griffin	...	Hostage
Connie Ivie	...	Hostage

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:15 | Australia:M | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Sweden:11 | USA:R | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

New York, USA

Company:

Devoted Productions

Trivia:

Based on the novel by Jay Cronley which was also filmed before as Hold-Up (1985) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Kim Cattrall.

Goofs:

Continuity: Grimm shoots out the first camera from the left side of the camera yet we see the right side of the camera exposed after the gunshot.

Quotes:

Phyllis: Great! We'll have to sail a raft to Fiji like Thor Heyerdahl!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Midnight Runaround (1994) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Baila Mi Ritmo

A brilliant comedy in 80s style

Bill Murray is a great actor, his interpretations in movies which "Ghostbuster" or "Scrooges" are memorable. Quick Change represents his first and unique directional proof with the coo-direction of Howard Franklyn. The movie remembers the demential comedy of late 70s and middle 80s and even the picaresque genre consacrated by Martin Scorsese in "After hours" or John Landis in "Into the night". The special confluence of this two genres creates comic effects in chain reaction. The scenes with the taxi driver and the mobster are very hilarious and Geena Davis confirmed her special comic talent, while Randy Quaid is very funny in the role of the good-dumb. But the very director of the scene is Bill Murray, the movie is constructed for his particular way of acting. He is one of the American actors who knows very well Buster's Keaton lesson: make laugh without laughing. His comic style is a little bit more surrealistic and absurd of the one of the master, but Bill Murray his an actor of our times and the comparisons are always not possible. The only defect of this movie, and it's not a little thing, is to resemble to the story of many other movie. It's all so predictable that the only stuff we see is the speeches: it could be a programmed decision but in the long run it can also bore.