2007 · comedy · road-movie
The Bank Robbery
Directed by Hy Averback1h 38m2007
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Our read: The Bank Robbery (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · road-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / road-movie, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
- funny
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