With a story that's too flimsy to support its running time, this road-mo vie comedy has plenty of problems, but at its best it's a surprisingly inspired vehicle for the clever teaming of Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. Robbins plays an addled advertising executive who comes home early one day and discovers his wife in bed with his boss. To make matters worse, he's later carjacked by a struggling, unemployed family-man-turned-petty-thief (Lawrence), and that's when he loses his cool completely. He takes the carjacker hostage and recruits him on a road-trip scheme of... revenge against his wife and boss. Plotting to break into his boss' high-security vault, Robbins gets a criminal assist from Lawrence, but they're also on the run from another pair of would-be thieves who trail them to the vault's location. The routine plot of Nothing To Lose is occasionally limp and sluggish, but writer-director Steve Oedekerk (who makes a wacky cameo appearance as a security guard) mines comedy gold during several scenes that detour from the plot for the sake of sheer lunacy. Robbins and Lawrence have great comedic chemistry (if you can tolerate Lawrence's constant profanity), and although the movie ends on a false note with some unlikely turns of fate, it's definitely good for more than a few solid laughs. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play. Advertising executive Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) receives a shock when he returns home early and thinks he sees his wife in bed with his boss. He drives away in a daze, and when criminal T. Paul (Martin Lawrence) attempts to car-jack him, Nick effectively kidnaps him. After the pair rob a gas station, Nick hits upon a plan for revenge on his boss. Actors: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston Directors: Steve Oedekerk Writers: Steve Oedekerk Producers: Dan Jinks, Louis A. Stroller, Martin Bregman, Michael Bregman, Michael Klawitter Language: English Number of discs: 1
Advertising executive Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) receives a shock when he returns home early and thinks he sees his wife in bed with his boss. He drives away in a daze, and when criminal T. Paul (Martin Lawrence) attempts to car-jack him, Nick effectively kidnaps him. After the pair rob a gas station, Nick hits upon a plan for revenge on his boss.
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