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Bottle Rocket is a 1996 film directed by Wes Anderson. The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. As well as being Wes Anderson's directorial debut, Bottle Rocket was the debut feature for brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson, who starred with James Caan and Robert Musgrave. Bottle rocket may refer to: A bottle rocket, fueled by gunpowder and launched from a bottle A water rocket, fueled by air pressure and made out of a bottle Bottle Rocket, the 1996 film by Wes Anderson. ...
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Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. ...
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Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
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Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. ...
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Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. ...
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
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The movie was a commercial failure but launched Anderson's career by drawing attention from critics. Director Martin Scorsese later named Bottle Rocket one of his top-ten favorite movies of the 1990s.[2] Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. ...
Bottle Rocket is also the name of a short film directed by Anderson, shot in 1992 and released in 1994, on which the feature-length film was based.
The entire film was shot in Dallas, Houston and Hillsboro, Texas.[3] Dallas redirects here. ...
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Plot
The film centers on a group of aimless young men from a wealthy Texas community. As the movie opens, Dignan (Owen Wilson), "rescues" Anthony (Luke Wilson) from a voluntary mental hospital where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape planned and has developed a 75-year plan, which he shows to Anthony on the escape bus. The plan is to pull off several heists and then meet up with Mr. Henry, a landscapist and part-time criminal known to Dignan. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
The two friends waste no time in breaking into and robbing a house as a practice run, taking small, specific items from a list. During Dignan's critique of the robbery, he mentions that he took diamond earrings, which were not on the list. Anthony becomes angered because the house was his family's and he admonishes Dignan for stealing his mother's earrings without permission. For the 1967 film, see Robbery (film). ...
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Anthony visits his little sister at her school so she can return the earrings. Dignan recruits Bob Mapplethorpe as a getaway driver because he is the only person they know with his own car. The three make a road trip to buy guns and return to Bob's house to plan their next heist, a local bookstore. The group bickers as Dignan struggles to describe his intricate plan to the others. A bookstore. ...
The group manages to steal a small sum of money from the bookstore and then "go on the lam", at a hotel on the side of the highway. At the hotel, Anthony meets Inez (Lumi Cavazos), a maid, and the two spark a romance despite Inez's lack of English. Meanwhile, Bob finds out that his marijuana crop has been discovered by police and consequently, his older brother has been arrested. Though Dignan and Anthony convince him to stay the night, by morning Bob has taken his car and left to help his brother. Lumi Cavazos Lumi Cavazos (born January 1, 1969) is a Mexican actress, who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil’s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of Tita in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Mexican novel, Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water...
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Before leaving, Anthony gives Dignan an envelope for Inez. As Dignan delivers the envelope, Inez attempts to give him a message for Anthony that she loves him, but Dignan misunderstands. Taking an abandoned Alfa Romeo Spider, Dignan and Anthony continue with the 75-year plan, but the car quickly breaks down. On the side of the road, Anthony reveals that the envelope Dignan gave to Inez contained the rest of their cash. The two get in a fight and they go their separate ways. Alfa Romeo Spider Duetto. ...
Narrating a letter to his sister, Anthony says he and Bob have settled down into a routine that's been keeping them busy. One day Dignan shows up on a moped and the two friends reconcile. Dignan invites Anthony into a job with Mr. Henry and Anthony accepts in the condition that Bob is allowed in as well.
The trio meet the eccentric Mr. Henry (James Caan) and begin to plan a heist to rob a safe at a nearby cold storage facility. Mr. Henry places himself as a role model for the trio, standing up to Bob's abusive brother and tutoring Dignan on success. He invites the trio to a party at his house and visits the group at the Mapplethorpe's house, which he compliments. Meanwhile, Anthony learns of Inez's love for him and he contacts her. She has learned some English and the two rekindle their relationship. James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. ...
With two accomplices from Mr. Henry's landscaping company, the group attempts to conduct their heist at the factory, but the plan quickly falls apart. As the police arrive at the scene, Dignan has locked himself out of the escape van and is arrested. During the robbery, a cut-away reveals Mr. Henry loading furniture from Bob's house into a truck.
Anthony and Bob visit Dignan in prison. They catch up and tell him how Mr. Henry robbed Bob's house. Dignan begins rattling off an escape plan and instructs his friends to get into position for a get-away. After a tense moment, the two realize that Dignan is joking. Before leaving, Dignan says to Anthony, "Isn't it funny that you used to be in the nuthouse and now I'm in jail?" as he walks back into the prison. As in all Wes Anderson movies the ending is in slow motion. The history of psychiatric hospitals is linked heavily with social and scientific attitudes towards mentally retarded people, which have changed greatly over the past centuries. ...
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See also - Bottle Rocket (soundtrack)
Bottle Rocket a 1997 soundtrack to the Wes Anderson film of the same name. ...
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