The only thing really wrong with this brisk bit of comic fluff is that supporting actors Steve Zahn and William H. Macy are so good that leads Jeremy Northam and Ally Walker seem dull by comparison. No matter: First-time director Mark Illsley and his cowriters cooked up a wonderful premise that delivers solid laughs and has a heart as big as the state in which this farce unfolds. Smooth-talking, white-collar criminal Harry Sawyer (Northam) and mush-mouthed car thief Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. (Zahn) are doing hard time scooping up roadkill on a Texas chain gang. When a fight breaks out on a lonely strip of highway, Harry and Wayne take off, steal a Winnebago from a conven...
Released:
1999
Rated:
NR
Length:
104 mins