Bandits

Comedy, Romance, Crime

Cate Blanchett	Kate Wheeler
Bruce Willis	Joe Blake
Billy Bob Thornton	Terry Collins
Troy Garity	Harvey Pollard
January Jones	Claire
Bobby Slayton	Darren Head
Stacey Travis	Cloe Miller
Azura Skye	Cheri
Peggy Miley	Mildred Kronenberg
Brian O'Byrne	Darill Miller

Director	Barry Levinson
Producer	David Hoberman; Barry Levinson
Writer	Harley Peyton
Cinematography	Dante Spinotti
Musician	Christopher Young

Two convicts, the rugged Joe Blake (Bruce Willis) and nervous Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) are not only best friends, but cell mates. But when a spontaneous prison break leads Joe and Terry from the heart of a jail cell to the heart of suburbia, they begin their criminal lives anew. The plan? To become the notorious “Sleepover Bandits” by holding up the bank managers at their own homes, spending the night with them, and making an early start to the bank the next morning while it is empty. Problems begin when a beautiful, yet slightly neurotic, housewife Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) stumbles her way out of her dull marriage and pushes her way into the criminal duo, only to find a place in the heart of Joe, and eventually Terry. The tension and conflict rises as both convicts strive for Kate's love, all the while robbing banks and becoming the nation's most wanted criminals. But their scheme begins to lose inertia as the bank managers learn that Joe and Terry are more docile then they seem, so one last robbery is planned at the Alamo bank, where everything falls apart, and Joe and Terry have no place to turn.