![]() ![]() "But, you know, can you do it fast?" asks the staffer. The staffer hesitates, then agrees reluctantly. Then, hiding conspicuously below Anthony's second-story window, he waits for the "getaway," cupping his hand, as if signaling him with a mirror.Īnthony, who bears his friendship to Dignan with a world-weary sense of duty, begs a staffer to let him shimmy down the side of the building-just to humor Dignan's delusion. He gives Anthony a knotted sheet to "escape" with. "How could you be exhausted?")ĭignan (Owen Wilson), who is clearly missing a screw somewhere, is convinced his buddy is being held in some kind of institutional stalag. When the story starts, Anthony (Luke Wilson) is finishing a long voluntary rest in an asylum for "exhaustion." ("You haven't worked a day in your life," his sister retorts later. You never know what's going to happen next. Certain "formulaic" things take place, including the dutiful resolution of everyone's inner needs, but there's an open-ended mystery to everything. But the movie's not another slacker generation banality and it's only nominally about three wacky guys and their hopeless attempts to become professional burglars. "Bottle Rocket" is about the silly exploits of three shiftless Texans whose lives are at existential loose ends. They're purely interested in the way events can unfold-no matter how strange. But this movie-which could be described broadly as an off-center, twentysomething comedy, but is far more interesting than that-is a hilarious, inventive and goofy breath of fresh air.įirst-time filmmakers Wes Anderson (the director and co-writer) and Owen Wilson (co-writer and one of the performers) are pioneers of comic naivete. WHAT EXACTLY is "Bottle Rocket" about? Narratively, not that much. ![]()
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