Band of Robbers (2015)

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are grown men, still searching for the hidden treasure that has eluded them since childhood.

Directors:

Aaron Nee, Adam Nee

Writers:

Aaron Nee, Adam Nee

Stars:

Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Matthew Gray Gubler

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kyle Gallner	...	Huck Finn
Adam Nee	...	Tom Sawyer
Matthew Gray Gubler	...	Joe Harper
Melissa Benoist	...	Becky Thatcher
Daniel Edward Mora	...	Jorge Jiminez
Eric Christian Olsen	...	Sid Sawyer
Hannibal Buress	...	Ben Rogers
Stephen Lang	...	Injun Joe
Johnny Pemberton	...	Tommy Barnes
Cooper Huckabee	...	Muff Potter
Lee Garlington	...	Lieutenant Polly
Beth Grant	...	Widow Douglas
Creed Bratton	...	Dobbins
Jeff Newburg	...	Pap Finn
Gabriel Bateman	...	Young Huck Finn

Storyline

A comedic adventure that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as grown men in current day. Petty criminal Huck Finn hopes to leave his criminal life behind when he is released from a stint in prison, but his lifelong friend, and corrupt cop, Tom Sawyer, has other plans. Not ready to give up on his childhood fantasies of wealth and adventure, Tom forms the "Band of Robbers," recruiting their misfit friends Joe Harper and Ben Rogers, to join them for an elaborate plan to find a fabled treasure. But the plan soon unravels, thrusting the guys on a wild journey with dangerous consequences...

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Plot Keywords:

robbery | treasure | mexican laborer | coming of age | arrested development | 

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Taglines:

From Mark Twain's iconic books

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 April 2016 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Банда грабителей

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,827, 17 January 2016

Gross USA:

$20,555

Company Credits

Production Co:

Torn Sky Entertainment, Whitewater Films, Blacklist Digital

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Both Kyle Gallner and Melissa Benoist have played DC superheroes on the CW. Kyle Gallner played Bart Allen/Impulse on Smallville(2001), while Melissa Benoist plays Kara Danvers/Supergirl on Supergirl(2015).

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Quotes

Huck Finn: Nothing would surprise with Tom. Nothing but magic.

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Crazy Credits

[Title Card] Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

• Mark Twain

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Soundtracks

Will There Be Yodelin' In Heaven?
Performed by Girls of the Golden West
Courtesy of TRIKONT Our Own Voice

User Reviews

A different spin on Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain fans might be slightly disappointed by the portrayals of their favorite characters but it's best to see it as more as a modern day homage to the books than anything else.

Also a heavy dose of crude humor, it's a comedy of errors first and formost more so than the epic adventures of the books it is inspired by.

Set in present time our dear Huckleberry Finn is a ex con and Tom Sawyer is his childhood friend who ended up becoming a police officer, albeit for no noble reasons.

Kyle Gallner is always good and he is definitely the best actor in this film and delivers a lowkey but very good performance as Huck, Adam Nee is entertaining as Tom but his character is pretty one dimensional... But so are most of the other characters.

After seeing Stephen Lang being absolutely brilliant in 'DON'T BREATHE (2016)' I must say I was a little let down by his (too) mild performance in this one.

But overall the performances are good enough.

There were a couple times where I thought they should have wrote this or that differently in the script but overall the plot is also good enough.

So yeah overall, no masterpiece but... good enough 6.5/10.