Bottle Rocket

Name: Bottle Rocket
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Released: 1996
Duration: 91 min
Cast: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd, Shea Fowler, Haley Miller

Wes Anderson19961h 31mCrime, Comedy

Why we chose it

Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) shows the first signs of his style in this debut, co-written with Owen Wilson at the start of a long partnership. One guy is fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, another has a car, and the third has a plan that begins with a practice robbery.

Synopsis

Anthony is just walking out of a psychiatric hospital when he finds Dignan waiting at the gate with a plan for the two of them, broken down into stages. Stage one is a practice robbery, which calls for a car, and the only person they know who has one is their neighbour Bob. They’ve still got to track down a real criminal, too.