The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery |  | Director: David Burton Morris
Actors: Brooke Shields, Dylan Walsh, Rip Torn
Studio: Trinity Home Ent
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 266742
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
UPC: 881273001662
EAN: 0881273001662
ASIN: B0007ZSHKI
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: February 1, 2005
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 GREAT NEGLECTED FILM! August 20, 2009
David Burton Morris (Deephaven, Minnesota United States)
Almost Perfect Bank Robbery sat on a shelf at CBS for two years because the network was feuding with Brooke Shields. They finally dumped it on television in the middle of the summer because they were contractually obligated. The film was never sent out for reviews but somehow the Los Angeles Times saw it and called it "a Preston Sturgis-like comedy where Brooke Shields finally lets her comedic talents shine."
Related but fair July 9, 2005
Michael S. Graves (Effingham, Kansas)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I thought the movie plot and the humor displayed throughout the movie was tasteful and easy to follow. The reason we purchased the movie was primarily because Sherrie Renae Scott is my sister-in-law and when I found out she made a movie with Brook Shields and Rip Torn my wife (Sharon)insisted we purchase it.
 LAWN MOWER MAN January 23, 2005
Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Rip Torn plays an FBI agent who has thirty-five or more lawn mowers, his apparent hobby in this innocuous but unremarkable movie, which is supposedly based on true events. Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck, Congo) plays ex-navy seal Frank Syler who finds himself engaged/married to the perfect babe, Cyndi (played with a comic flourish by Brooke Shields). Only problem is Cyndi wants the best things in life and so in order to accommodate her, they plan to rob the bank where Cyndi works. Do they get away with it, and what is with this bracelet of Cyndi's which she's always losing. Hint: it figures prominently in the movie's resolution.
Shields and Walsh have little chemistry together, but both try gamely to bring some life to their cardboard characters. Sherie Rene Scott as Dana, Cyndi's workmate and friend, plays the dumb blonde to the point of sincerity that one wonders if she ISN'T really that dumb. Torn has some almost good moments, but the script's weakness is that Torn has no problem at all in immediately without any real proof assuming Walsh is guilty. Pedestrian direction by David Burton Morris doesn't help, and Alessandro Nivola as Doug the Bug is atrocious. But in spite of its many flaws, it's an occasionally entertaining caper, better than a lot of other higher priced fare, e.g. Ocean's 12.
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