1996 · comedy · crime
Bottle Rocket
Directed by Wes Anderson1h 31m1996
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
Our read: Bottle Rocket (1996) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- intimate
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