| Bank Robber | |
|---|---|
 Movie Poster | |
| Directed by | Nick Mead |
| Written by | Nick Mead |
| Produced by | Lila Cazès |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Andrzej Sekuła |
| Edited by | Maysie Hoy Richard E. Westover |
| Music by | Stewart Copeland |
| Distributed by | I.R.S. Releasing Corporation |
Release date | 3 December 1993 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million [1] |
| Box office | $115,842 (USA) |
Bank Robber is a 1993 American crime film written and directed by Nick Mead in his directorial debut.
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Billy, is a well dressed bank robber who decides to do one last heist so he can sail off to a tropical island with his girlfriend, Selina. On his last robbery, he forgets to destroy a surveillance camera. He then must hide out in the Heartbreak Hotel until he can get out of trouble.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Patrick Dempsey | Billy |
| Lisa Bonet | Priscilla |
| Judge Reinhold | Officer Gross |
| Forest Whitaker | Officer Battle |
| Olivia d'Abo | Selina |
| Mariska Hargitay | Marisa Benoit |
| Michael Jeter | NC1 |
| Paula Kelly | Mother |
| Stephen McDonough | Andy |
Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave it a mixed to negative review:
The humor is both too oblique and too mild-mannered for the movie to cohere as a modern comic fable. It amounts to little more than a series of loosely connected tangents that come to an abrupt and unsatisfying conclusion. [2]
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