Quick Change
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
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- Cast:
- Bill Murray , Geena Davis , Randy Quaid , Jason Robards , Stanley Tucci , Phil Hartman , Kathryn Grody
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best movie i've ever seen.
Absolutely the worst movie.
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Quick Change was an awesome movie. Very funny and the bank robbery scene at the beginning is actually good enough to be in a great heist movie. I loved this one!
"Quick Change" has a lot going for it. A comedy-crime-romance flick, it has lots of fresh, crisp lines that Bill Murray turns into many laughs. Randy Quaid's over-the-top outbursts of zaniness add more laughs. Then, several more characters add twists of humor throughout. Jason Robards appeared to be having fun making this film, and his remarks and wit brought smiles and laughter. As the cab driver, Tony Shalhoub, had some of the very funniest scenes. This hilarious romp has sight gags, great one-liners, zaniness and humor throughout. But the most poignant humor, I think, is in the spoofs. The script, with Murray at the helm, pretty much jabs at every aspect of life in the Big Apple. Traffic, police, organized crime, taxi service, workers, neighborhoods, and nationalities all get the poking-fun treatment. But for the profanity and coarse language in places, "Quick Change" might be a fun film for the whole family. This is a comedy – not a real-life crime and police drama. So, the few off-color lines seemed out of place or not to belong. Some script tweaking to replace those could have made the film even funnier. That would have led me to rate it a notch higher.
Dressed as a clown, "laughing on the inside" Bill Murray (as Grimm) goes to rob a New York City bank. Correctly anticipating the police are gathering outside, Mr. Murray takes the bank staff and customers hostage. Threatening their lives, he makes demands. Murray hopes to leave the country with sexy Geena Davis (as Phyllis), goofy Randy Quaid (as Loomis), and a million dollars. Police chief Jason Robards (as Rotzinger) wants to stop them. The opening heist is engaging, but it gets tedious. Possibly aiming for satire, this loses balance, though there are a few chuckles from the New Yorkers encountered.*** Quick Change (7/13/90) Howard Franklin, Bill Murray ~ Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards
"Quick Change" comes a bureaucrat who is sick of urban life and dreams of an escape with his girlfriend. Unlike most, he finds a way to put his fantasies into action by robbing a bank. He has additional help from a loyal child-like friend.The "quick change" from their disguises in the bank might be the reference in the title though there might be a deeper meaning about the need to change on a personal level or how we do change. This is after all part of the conflict -- the lead's girlfriend is uncomfortable about his apparent personality change as he appears to almost cruelly go about escaping from the myriad of roadblocks put in front of them (some pretty funny, other wryly so) while they try to escape the city.The film suggests a certain love of the city since much of the humor is based on various exaggerated expressions of "types" (like a bus driver who strictly follows the rules to keep sane or a big city detective, well played by Jason Robards -- part of a good ensemble cast, about to retire). It is also often low key, which some might not like, but I did enjoy the film as a whole. And, Bill Murray is not so sure of himself, so above the fray, that we don't see him as a real person.Funny movie which New Yorkers might appreciate more.