Held Up (1999) (original) (raw)

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Original title

Held Up

Year

1999

Running time

85 min.

Country

United States

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Comedy | Heist Film

Synopsis

While they're on vacation in the Southwest, Rae finds out her man Michael spent their house money on a classic car, so she dumps him, hitching a ride to Vegas for a flight home. A kid promptly steals Michael's car, leaving him at the Zip & Sip, a convenience store. Three bumbling robbers promptly stage a hold up. Two take off with the cash stranding the third, with a mysterious crate, just as the cops arrive. The robber takes the store hostage. As incompetent cops bring in a SWAT team and try a by-the-book rescue, Michael has to keep the robber calm, find out what's in the crate, aid the negotiations, and get back to Rae. The Stockholm Syndrome asserts its effect.

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Critics' reviews

"A fish-out-of-water comedy that is all wet from the start."
"By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated."
"There's an obligatory feel-good ending that's totally unbelievable, and the raunchy first act banter between Foxx and his girlfriend is disconcertingly at odds with the Preston Sturges-style stuff that follows"
"There are points in the movie where you think you're ready to laugh, but, like the movie as a whole, they don't amount to much."

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