On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
A bank robbery goes wrong as the thief, Ned Perry, played by Martin Short, tries to use a recently released felon, Lucas, played by Nick Nolte, who was incarcerated for bank robbery, as a hostage to escape. From there the film is about Ned being with his daughter, the relationship between the three, evading the police and finding a way to safety. The police are fairly stupid in this allowing the fugitives to be fugitives for most of the film. There are moments of laughter, including the ending, and heart, involving Ned's daughter, but it's fairly predictable and gets a bit repetitive. 2.5-3/5
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