Two sets of bank robbers. One very sticky heist.
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
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- DoryDarkoon TMDB · Feb 20178/10
Flypaper is an unconventional 'whodunit' in the form of a screwball comedy. It starts off with a guy named Tripp (played by Patrick Dempsey) who walks into a bank to get some change and ends up in the middle of two simultaneous bank robberies, executed by two different gangs, one of whom highly professional, the other one very much the opposite. What follows is an idiotic muddle of story lines and plot twists, which overall is pretty funny and at times even hilarious. Flypaper's biggest asset is its wild array of stereotype characters, which certainly doesn't always work out, but in this case does so very well, mostly because of the clever writing. The dialogue is sharp and witty, and the way the characters are played out against one another is really the stuff of great comedies. One of the best characters is one called Peanut Butter, played by the great Tim Blake Nelson, who, together with his buddy Jelly forms a duo of laughably amateurish hillbilly bank robbers. The other team of (professional) bank robbers is set together of another great group of stereotypes, namely The Black Guy, The Jewish Guy and The British Guy (not their actual character names, just pointing it out), whic
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Cast
- Patrick DempseyTripp
- Ashley JuddKaitlin
- Tim Blake NelsonPeanut Butter
- Mekhi PhiferDarrien
- Matt RyanGates
- Jeffrey TamborGordon Blythe
- John VentimigliaWeinstein
- Pruitt Taylor VinceJelly
- Curtis ArmstrongMitchell Wolf
- Rob HuebelRex Newbauer
Crew
- Rob MinkoffDirector
- Jon LucasWriter
- Scott MooreWriter
- Steven PosterDirector of Photography
- John SwihartOriginal Music Composer
- Tom FinanEditor
- Mark DamonProducer
- Patrick DempseyProducer
- Moshe DiamantProducer
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