Bottle Rocket

Focusing on a trio of friends and their elaborate plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.

• Director:Wes Anderson
• Genre:Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
• Runtime:92 minutes

Cast

Luke Wilson : Anthony Adams
Owen Wilson : Dignan (as Owen C. Wilson)
Ned Dowd : Dr. Nichols
Shea Fowler : Grace
Haley Miller : Bernice

The film centers on a group of aimless young men from a wealthy Texas community. As the movie opens, Dignan (Owen Wilson) “rescues” Anthony (Luke Wilson) from a voluntary mental hospital where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape planned and has developed a 75-year plan, which he shows to Anthony on the escape bus. The plan is to pull off several heists and then meet Mr. Henry, a landscapist and part-time criminal known to Dignan.

The two friends waste no time in breaking into and robbing a house as a practice run, taking small, specific items from a list. During Dignan’s critique of the robbery, he mentions that he took diamond earrings, which were not on the list. Anthony becomes angered because the house was his family’s and he admonishes Dignan for stealing his mother’s earrings without permission.

Anthony visits his little sister at her school so she can return the earrings. Dignan recruits Bob Mapplethorpe as a getaway driver because he is the only person they know with his own car. The three make a road trip to buy guns and return to Bob’s house to plan their next heist, a local bookstore. The group bickers as Dignan struggles to describe his intricate plan to the others.

The group manages to steal a small sum of money from the bookstore and then “go on the lam” at a hotel on the side of the highway. At the hotel, Anthony meets Inez (Lumi Cavazos), a maid, and the two spark a romance despite Inez’s lack of English. Meanwhile, Bob finds out that his marijuana crop has been discovered by police and consequently, his older brother has been arrested. Though Dignan and Anthony convince him to stay the night, by morning Bob has taken his car and left to help his brother.

Before leaving, Anthony gives Dignan an envelope for Inez. Dignan delivers the envelope to Inez while she is cleaning a room, without knowing the envelope has most of his and Anthony’s money inside. Inez does not open the envelope and hugs Dignan to say goodbye. As Dignan is leaving, Inez runs to a friend of hers, who is nearby cleaning another room. This friend speaks English well and Inez asks him to chase after Dignan and tell him that she loves Anthony. Her friend is a boy, and when he chases after Dignan and delivers the message he says, “Tell Anthony I love him”. Dignan misunderstands the friend and assumes he is speaking for himself and not Inez, and so does not deliver the message to Anthony. Read more

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