Three Fugitives

Name: Three Fugitives
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: January 27, 1989
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Alan Ruck, Bruce McGill, David Arnott, James Earl Jones, Kenneth McMillan

1989

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: January 27, 1989 | PG-13

Starring: Alan Ruck, Bruce McGill, David Arnott, James Earl Jones, Kenneth McMillan, Lee Garlington, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff, Sy Richardson

Summary: A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Director: Francis Veber

Genre(s): Action, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Making excellent use of Nolte's controlled toughness and Short's hysterical freneticism, Weber plays the comic action hard and fast, grounding the humour in believable reality that has spiralled out of control. Read full review

Rick Groen

Just a guffaw here, a chuckle there, ho-hum, and that's all, folks. [27 Jan 1989]

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As for the Nolte-Short pairing, it’ll do, but it’s no chemical marvel. Nolte, not really a comic natural, gruffs and grumbles his way through as hunky straight man to Short’s calamitous comedian. Read full review

Jay Boyar

It would be wrong to blame Martin Short alone for the failure of Three Fugitives. Francis Veber, the French filmmaker who wrote and directed the film, must accept much of the responsibility. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This obvious attempt to tap into the same audience that flocked to THREE MEN AND A BABY (indeed, it could have been titled "Two Men and a Toddler") is about as lifeless as they come. Not only is THREE FUGITIVES a scene-for-scene remake of Veber's French original, it is actually shot for shot the same film. Not surprisingly, the resulting film feels mechanical, despite engaging performances from Short and Nolte. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Francis Veber's Three Fugitives, a heist caper, starts off with comic promise then limps all the way from the bank. Read full review

Tom Gliatto

Whatever knockabout Gallic charm the original might have had - and, starring Gerard Depardieu, it must have had some - has been sucked out of Three Fugitives. What's left is a vacuum-packed factory product with a few arresting touches, including some surprisingly violent slapstick and a sullen young heroine who looks like a preschool Isabelle Adjani.

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Steven1981

Mar 22, 2020

Three Fugitives is another movie from my childhood which was great watching as a kid. Nick Nolte is released from prison after being on the inside for some crime or another then wants to start a new life but while in a bank discussing something with one of the workers or cashiers gets takenThree Fugitives is another movie from my childhood which was great watching as a kid. Nick Nolte is released from prison after being on the inside for some crime or another then wants to start a new life but while in a bank discussing something with one of the workers or cashiers gets taken hostage by a dude wearing women's tights over his face as a disguise which is laughable. He holds up the bank with a gun and demands money to be put in a bag then takes Nick Nolte who plays Lucas hostage and both flee in a car with cops in pursuit but cops lose them after the car turns over and rolls down an embankment or something. The hostage taker played by Martin Short is very annoying and a stupid, laughable character, the veterinary doctor who's some old fart who takes a bullet out of Nick Nolte and treats him like a doggy is laughably embarrassing and pathetic and so childish and unconvincing. Nick Nolte and Martin Short who's the hostage taker later kidnap Martin Shorts daughter from some hospital or something with cops still out looking for them and later on the hostage takers daughter is meant to be a boy after a haircut and Nick Nolte acts like a husband to Martin Short who took him hostage and Martin Short wears a ladies wig and is taken into hospital to give birth and rushes out of the building with the pregnancy lump disappearing when a teddy bear or cuddly toy falls out. A fairly funny but ridiculous film with some likeable characters and some awful characters with bad acting and an appearance from James Earl Jones. Not the best movie by miles but it was made in 1989 so what you expect?… Expand

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