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Director: Anne Fletcher
Writers: David Feeney, John Quaintance
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Reviews
Do not watch this film on a full bladder. You will wet yourself laughing. Believe me. I know. Witherspoon and Vergara are, appallingly, funny together. It doesn't much matter what's happening with the plot. Everything they do is funny. It is a grand farce driven by deliriously 'over the top' characterisations from both of these divine comediennes. The absurd becomes the sublime with this fortunate pairing.
In their early days at the Hal Roach studio in the mid 1920s', Laurel and Hardy would gather up director Leo McCarey, the great Scottish actor, Jimmy Finlayson as their usual foil, a skeleton crew and would head out onto the streets of Culver City to make a movie. With no script and armed with only a concept like Big Businesses' trying to sell a Christmas trees door to door in July. They just went out and improvised and had fun; lots and lots of fun. This movie has the same mad,inventive spontaneity as the classics. It must have caught our worthy but over cautious critics off guard. So desperately do they want to be taken seriously that they are prone to dismiss fun for it's own priceless sake lest they be on the outside of movie critic hipster land looking in with no one that 'matters' looking back. Kudos to Stephanie Zacharek for getting it right.
In their early days at the Hal Roach studio in the mid 1920s', Laurel and Hardy would gather up director Leo McCarey, the great Scottish actor, Jimmy Finlayson as their usual foil, a skeleton crew and would head out onto the streets of Culver City to make a movie. With no script and armed with only a concept like Big Businesses' trying to sell a Christmas trees door to door in July. They just went out and improvised and had fun; lots and lots of fun. This movie has the same mad,inventive spontaneity as the classics. It must have caught our worthy but over cautious critics off guard. So desperately do they want to be taken seriously that they are prone to dismiss fun for it's own priceless sake lest they be on the outside of movie critic hipster land looking in with no one that 'matters' looking back. Kudos to Stephanie Zacharek for getting it right.
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