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Bottle Rocket (1996)

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5: excellent
4: very good
3: average
2: fair
robert musgrave
1: poor
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4.00

This is a very funny crime caper kind of movie, except that the three young guys committing the crimes are completely inept. For practice, they break into one guy's parents' house during the daytime. When the guy finds out the other guy took his mom's jewelry, he puts it back. They bring in the third guy into the gang to be the getaway driver, mainly because he is the only one with a car. After they pull off a robbery of the local library, they hightail it out of town and stay at a roadside motel. But the guy with the car goes home to help his brother, and another guy falls in love with the motel maid. So the leader whines that the gang is falling apart. This is a little known movie that is definitely worth a look. The writers later went on to make Rushmore, which is also a very funny oddball kind of movie.
— marty