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Disorganized Crime

Actor(s): Hoyt Axton, Corbin Bernsen, Rub�n Blades, Fred Gwynne
Director(s): M. James Kouf Jr.
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Movie Release: 1989
DVD Release: 09/03/2002
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Members Wishing: 0
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Parody/Spoof, Comedy of Errors

DVD Synopsis

When a conniving Montana thief (Corbin Bernsen) decides to rob the local bank, he organizes a gang of four to meet at a remote cabin to initiate the crime. The ringleader is delayed, however, by a pair of ineffective cops. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide

Actors

Hoyt Axton - Sheriff Henault
Corbin Bernsen - Frank Salazar
Rub�n Blades - Carlos Barrios
Fred Gwynne - Max Green

Editorial Review of DVD

Jim Couf's crime comedy Disorganized Crime comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.8:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence. This is a bare-bones release from Disney/Buena Vista, but it does offers excellent picture quality. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Member Movie Reviews

Jason C. (JJC) from NEWARK, NJ wrote on 4/17/2008...

Frank Salazar (Corbin Bernsen) is a thief from Newark, NJ now hiding out in a dusty, open Montana town. He has his sights set on a bank robbery, which will take four of the best men he's ever worked with in his impressive career, to successfully pull it off. Right after Frank sends letters to his best four guys to meet him in Montana with details unknown, he gets arrested by bumbling Newark Detectives George Denver (Ed O'Neill) and Bill Lonigan (Daniel Roebuck) who received a hot lead to his whereabouts and decide to take him back to Newark. But Salazar outsmarts the two clueless cops, gets away and tries to trek back to his hideout, but gets lost in the rural deserts of Montana.

Meanwhile, Frank's four-man posse, which consists of aging explosives expert Max Green (Fred Gwynne); professional safe-cracker and alcoholic Nick Bartkowski (William Russ); fellow heist-man and gunman Carlos Barrios (Rubén Blades); and getaway driver Ray Forgy (Lou Diamond Phillips)...whom all don't know each other, meet up at the train station, where Ray drives them all to Frank's hideout...but there's no Frank! So, these four strangers must work together to find out where Frank is and why they were called there in the first place. Of course, these guys aren't going to get along at first, which causes more problems and results in one getting arrested. But when they finally realize that Frank had a big time robbery in mind, they decide to take on the job anyway without Frank. Meanwhile, the two detectives on still on Salazar's tail, even though they're way off track and actually more so, following the hijinks caused by Frank's four buddies, thinking it's Frank and getting closer.

The movie is a lot of fun and well-written I might add. Written and directed by Jim Kouf, who wrote "Stakeout," an even better but also a tad more serious crime-comedy, once again provides a well-thought out script. "Crime" does get a little more on the silly side but Kouf's scenario of a group of urban disorganized criminals running around in Montana, does work especially with a great cast of character actors all turning in admirable performances. It provides a bunch of laughs, some real funny, some kind of lame but all in all and at the end, you feel like you want to see another film with these guys.