Bandits

Bandits is an entertaining mainstream crime comedy with Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis, who a touch too smugly play on their star personas as, respectively, the intelligent eccentric and the macho ladykiller in the roles of the film's bandits.

After a spectacular escape from prison, the friends Terry Collins and Joe Blake devise an ingenious method of robbing banks, which earns them the nickname 'the Sleepover Bandits' in the media. On the evening before the heists, Terry and Joe take the bank manager and his family hostage in their home, where they spend the night, before getting the manager to give them free access to the money in the bank early the next morning.

After one of the pair's heists they meet the frustrated wife Kate, who voluntarily lets herself be taken hostage. In fact, she begs and pleads for it, for she has no wish to go back to her pointless existence as a stay-at-home housewife. Kate first starts a relationship with the blunt and charming Joe, but later falls for the phobic and vulnerable Terry. She cannot choose between them, for together they make the perfect man. The question is whether this ménage à trois can last in the long run.