Fresh
The crisp images and Bill Foster's unnerving ambient sound of hovering copters enormously aid this low-budget powder keg.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Pups
What happens when a kid finds a gun or a gun finds a kid?
1999 · 1h 39m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Ash Baron-Cohen
Overview
When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ash ... is a genuine provocateur-filmmaker.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Raw but effective reworking of Dog Day Afternoon.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
Pups looks ragged and slammed-together, but that's part of its appeal; the film has a wildness that more care would have killed.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Hyperkinetic, perceptive though derivative.
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
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