Basics

Title: Bottle Rocket
Rating: R for violence and language
Running Time: 91 min
Release Date: February 21, 1996 (USA)
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Tagline: They're not really criminals, but everybody's got to have a dream.

Synopsis

Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson's brother Luke Wilson) and Bob Mapplethorpe (Robert Musgrave) to enter the crime business. After their first heist, a bizarrely-executed robbery of a local bookstore, the trio goes on the lam, taking up residence in a border hotel where Anthony falls in love with a maid played by Lumi Cavazos. When the three buddies decide that they need to return to the real world, they hook up with a master con-man (James Caan) who sends them on a daring -- if ill-conceived -- mission.

Cast

Luke Wilson ... Anthony Adams
Owen Wilson... Dignan
Ned Dowd... Dr. Nichols
Robert Musgrave... Bob Mapplethorpe
Andrew Wilson... John Mapplethorpe (Future Man)
James Caan... Abe Henry (Mr. Henry)
Lumi Cavazos... Inez
Julie Mayfield... Wife in Motel Room
Don Phillips Jr.... Husband in Motel Room
Anna Cifuentes... Carmen
Donny Caicedo... Rocky
Melinda Renna... Anita
Richard Reyes... Man in Bar
Julio Cedillo... Man Outside Bar
Teddy Wilson... Hector Mapplethorpe
Jim Ponds... Applejack
Tak Kubota... Rowboat
Kumar Pallana... Kumar
Haskell Craver... Jackson
Shea Fowler... Grace
Haley Miller... Bernice
Brian Tenenbaum... H. Clay Murchison
Jenni Tooley... Stacy Sinclair
Temple Nash... Temple
Dipak Pallana... Bookstore Employee
Darryl Cox... Bookstore Manager
Stephen Dignan... Rob
Jill Parker-Jones... Motel Manager
Nena Smarz... Maid
Linn Mullin... Detective

Soundtrack

* "Voluntary Hospital Escape" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Gun Buyers" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Bookstore Robbery" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Dignan's Dance" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "And Also Because He Fired Me" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Zorro Is Back" – Oliver Onions
* "Cleaning Rooms With Inez" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "She Looks Just Like You" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Pachanga Diferente" – Renι Touzet
* "No Lifeguard on Duty" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Mambo Guajiro" – Renι Touzet
* "Rocky" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Doesn't Sound That Bad in Spanish" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Over and Done With" – The Proclaimers
* "Snowflake Music/Mr. Henry's Chop Shop" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "You're Breaking His Heart" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Goddammit I'm In" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "No Jazz" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Highway" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "75 Year Plan" – Mark Mothersbaugh
* "Futureman's Theme" – Mark Mothersbaugh

Links

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