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Band of Robbers

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Grown-ups Tom Sawyer (Adam Nee), Huck Finn (Kyle Gallner) and two old friends search for hidden treasure inside a pawn shop.
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Jason Bailey Flavorwire 04/27/2016
Sharp, funny, big-hearted, and absolutely true to the spirit of the author in question. Go to Full Review
Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 01/21/2016
Band of Robbers doesn't quite spin its imaginative conceit into comic gold, but it offers some minor pleasures along the way. Go to Full Review
Joe Leydon Variety 01/16/2016
This clever updating of Mark Twain finds Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer involved in a comic caper. Go to Full Review
Beth McDonough The Babbling Blonde 05/10/2019
C+
Although often clumsy and out of sync, the brand of comedic twists on Twain's famous literary figures and setting make Band of Robbers an adequate tale of fan fiction. Go to Full Review
Robert Kojder Flickering Myth 12/04/2017
3/5
One minute it's a breezy comedy sailing along with laughter, and then before you know it you're fearing for the lives of characters without an effective tonal shift Go to Full Review
Indra Arriaga Anchorage Press 06/21/2017
Forget the plot, forget the moral lessons, the acting is reason enough to see Band of Robbers. Go to Full Review
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Blake H 11/10/2023 The script is unique, hilarious & full of creative scenes. This is a true gem, as it should be, it is a film about a treasure hunt afterall. See more Kathryn J 06/25/2023 What a wonderful film. Everything about it was terrific - script, acting, music, concept. I want to see it again; it was that much fun. Highly recommended. See more adam b 12/30/2020 I've never read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Fin and I haven't watched any adaptations of the books before but I had a central idea of the plot. Pleasantly surprising. The entire cast is great and the story moves along at such a nice pace. A must see for fans of adventure films See more 10/20/2019 The utilization of the green and red contrast is used beautifully throughout the film by the Nee brothers. A very amusing and fun film following a band of nitwits as they pull off a heist where everything goes wrong. The acting was great as well as the interesting and different plot. See more 07/11/2018 There are some clever conceits buoying up the film, and a whole host of terrific performances that make it worth watching, but too often the execution falls flat, the underlying premise-Tom Sawyer as a young millennial adult in the contemporary South-never quite clicking with its beloved source material. Tom and Huck, when grown up and updated, no longer feel like a pair of mischievous rapscallions, but a couple of overgrown assholes who wreak destruction not only in their own lives, but those of total and innocent strangers. Tom is still affable and charming, but unlike the book, which is told through Huck's eyes-not just his voice, not just through colorful narration, but via the unreliability of Huck's own subjective experience-the film never sinks deeply enough into Huck's perspective to overlook Tom's tomfoolery for what it is: Opportunistic hornswoggle. See more 06/16/2018 Good movie, that’s all there is to it See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Grown-ups Tom Sawyer (Adam Nee), Huck Finn (Kyle Gallner) and two old friends search for hidden treasure inside a pawn shop.
Director
Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Producer
John Will, Rick Rosenthal, Matt Ratner, Arun Kumar
Screenwriter
Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
Lola's Productions, Whitewater Films, Tilted Windmill Productions, Torn Sky Entertainment, Blacklist Digital
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 15, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 15, 2017
Runtime
1h 35m
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