Flypaper (2011)

Directed by

Rob Minkoff

Genre

comedy film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 809 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two groups of robbers try to hold up the same bank at the same time. A hostage works out what is going on and tries to win over a bank teller.

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What happens

Flypaper is a 2011 American crime comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff, written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and distributed by IFC Films. Starring Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd, the film centers around two groups of criminals that stick up the same bank at the same time, holding all of the employees and bystanders hostage. One of the hostages (Dempsey) escapes captivity and attempts to deduce the unusual double-robbery, waggishly courting the affection of a bank teller (Judd) in the process. Dempsey also produced the film alongside Mark Damon and Peter Safran. Lucas and Moore had previously written The Hangover (2009), and met Minkoff in the months leading up to that film's release. Minkoff, best known for co-directing The Lion King (1994), expressed a desire to work with them, and agreed to head Flypaper when he learned they had written the script, which he described as "terrific." Filming took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from June to September 2010. Flypaper premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2011, and had a limited theatrical release on August 19 of the same year. It received generally mixed or negative reviews, with praise going to Tim Blake Nelson and Pruitt Taylor Vince for their performances, while Minkoff's direction and Dempsey's performance garnered more divided responses. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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