Three Fugitives

Cutesy Hollywood remake of a French film, a la THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE, THREE MEN AND A BABY, and COUSINS. What distinguishes THREE FUGITIVES from these is that its director, Francois Veber, was also the man in charge on the original, LES FUGITIFS. The French film starred Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard in the roles taken here by Nick Nolte and Martin Short. Paroled from prison after serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, Daniel Lucas (Nolte) is in the wrong place at the wrong time when Ned Perry (Short), the unemployed father of a traumatized little girl (Doroff), holds up a bank to get money to send his daughter to a special school. Ned takes Danie...