Video Review

Safe Men

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rated: R; With: Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn; Distributor: October Films

Breezy is the word for this rare comedy that ducks violence and hip posturing in favor of comic chemistry. Rockwell (Box of Moonlight) and Zahn (Out of Sight) play bumbling musicians whom a local mobster mistakes for expert safecrackers and forces to perform a string of break-ins. The film plays up the awkward rapport of its heroes, and although the laid-back style occasionally flirts with smugness, the leads never falter. B+

Originally posted Mar 26, 1999 Published in issue #478 Mar 26, 1999 Order article reprints
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