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Quick Change (1990)

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User Rating: 6.5/10 (5,339 votes)
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Overview

Writers (WGA):
Jay Cronley (book)
Howard Franklin (screenplay)
Release Date:
13 July 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
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. full summary | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Quirky | Phone Booth | Bicycle | Airport | Airplane more
User Comments:
Good Mix Of Clever and Silly Comedy more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
New York, USA more
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Trivia:
Based on the novel by Jay Cronley which was also filmed 4 years earlier as "Hold-Up" with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Kim Cattrall. more
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. more
Quotes:
Grimm: If I can sleep ten days and nights in a rice patty, I can certainly last in this lousy bank! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Midnight Runaround (1994) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
L-O-V-E more

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14 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Good Mix Of Clever and Silly Comedy, 29 May 2006
8/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This is a clever and entertaining comedy that has some dramatic and romantic touches as well. It's almost two movies-in-one: a dramatic holdup and a comic getaway. The holdup scene does has comedy but is more dramatic. It reminded me of the '70s classic "Dog Day Afternoon" in which the hostages are kept by a couple of robbers and the crooks demand the normal assortment of getaway vehicles. Except in here, ringleader Bill Murray wants a "monster truck" along with everything else. You know with Murray you are going to get outrageous humor and satire.

Anyway, the bulk of the film concerns what happens after the trio - Murray, Randy Quaid and Geena Davis - after they successfully escape the holdup. The bottom line is that they just can't get out of New York City. One disaster after another keeps happening, and it's all kind funny (and frustrating!). The ending I won't spoil.

Murray plays his normal wise-guy role and Quaid is good as the emotional slapstick-type buffoon. For some reason, the scene in which Quaid runs full-tilt into a newspaper stand and knocks himself out almost had me in tears laughing. Davis complements the two with her coolness and eye candy for the male audience. Veteran Jason Robards plays the chief detective on the case, and shows comedic touches of his own.

What also is fun to watch nowadays is Tony Shalhoub. When this film came out, hardly anyone knew him. Now he's famous as "Monk" on the television series of the same name. In this film, he plays an Arabic cab driver and you have to see this performance to believe it! A couple of other familiar faces also show up in here, including Bob Elliot from the old radio duo of "Bob and Ray."

There is no sex, no bloodshed, just a lot of jokes but the "R" rating ought to tell you something about the language in here. The jokes and story were good enough on their own and didn't need all the profanity.

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