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Bottle Rocket (1994)
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1994 (USA)
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They're not criminals, but everybody's got to have a dream.
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The banality of crime. Two young men, Dignan and Anthony, walk along talking about "Starsky and Hutch." They're on their way to burglarize a house...
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Pistol
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Target Practice
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Robbery
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Thief
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Bookstore
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promising though a bit derivative
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(Credited cast)| Owen Wilson | ... | Dignan | |
| Luke Wilson | ... | Anthony | |
| Robert Musgrave | ... | Bob Hanson | |
| Elissa Sommerfield | ... | Waitress at Diner | |
| Isiah Ellis | ... | Man on Street | |
| Temple Nash | ... | Temple | |
| Briggs Branning | ... | Man at Golfs (as Col. Briggs Branning) |
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The short film was originally set to feature established actors but because of the low budget, the main characters were given to brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson, who had never been in a movie before.
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References "Starsky and Hutch" (1975)
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The Route
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The owner of our local video store was nice enough to let me borrow his copy of the short when I rented Bottle Rocket. It's very clever but honestly nothing to write home about. Witty dialog with a lot of pop culture references and a certain charm, but it just doesn't have that endearing quality that Anderson and Wilson's longer films have. It actually seems more like something Quentin Tarantino would do than Anderson and Wilson. If you're a fan of Bottle Rocket and you get a chance to see this it's probably worth it. If nothing else it's interesting to see how it started. On the other hand if you never see it you shouldn't feel like you're missing too much.