Bottle Rocket (Widescreen, Fullscreen)
- Starring: Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson
- Director: Wes Anderson
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A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson's brother Luke Wilson) and Bob Mapplethorpe (Robert Musgrave) to enter the crime business. After their first heist, a bizarrely-executed robbery of a local bookstore, the trio goes on the lam, taking up residence in a border hotel where Anthony falls in love with a maid played by Lumi Cavazos. When the three buddies decide that they need to return to the real world, they hook up with a master con-man (James Caan) who sends them on a daring -- if ill-concieved -- mission. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Comedy
- Category: Buddy Film, Caper, Coming-of-Age, Crime Comedy
- Theme: Nothing Goes Right, Sibling Relationships, Unlikely Criminals
- Release Date: December 22, 1998
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Language, Questionable for Children
- Studio: Columbia TriStar
- Lead Actors: Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos
- Supporting Actors: Kumar Pallana, Ned Dowd, Jim Ponds, James Caan
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Picture Format: Pan & Scan, Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 31 min
- Language: English, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-14-1892
- ASIN: B002HL3BK6
- Catalog #: 11323354
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.49 inches length x 5.33 inches width x 0.58 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.19 pound.
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Bottle Rocket, the first film by Rushmore director Wes Anderson, introduced not only a bright new directing talent in the quirky mold of the Coen brothers, but also the offbeat brother acting team of Luke and Owen Wilson, the latter of whom shares the film's screenwriting credit. Luke's laconic charm and Owen's peculiar chattiness -- yin and yang attributes in siblings -- have since served them well in a slew of increasingly mainstream movies, but never have they been more sweetly on display than in this comedy of misguided would-be outlaws in small-town Texas. The naivete of Owen Wilson's Dignan, who drags his friends along for a couple of silly robbery attempts, is heartwarming in its sincerity. Rarely has wanting to rise above a humdrum life to achieve wealth and allure been so poignant and hilarious. Take special note of the gut-busting scenes with Kumar Pallana as an absurd little man who's brought aboard as a safecracker without ever really understanding what's expected of him. Anderson's weightless touch ensures that even the recent breakdown of Luke Wilson's Anthony -- which he discusses in a scene with his young stepsister that is notable for its frankness and lack of condescension -- feels like the comfortable details of an acceptably imperfect world where everything will be okay. Martin Scorsese placed Bottle Rocket on his list of the ten best films of the 1990s, which gives some indication of the respect accorded to this little-seen film. Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
