Lead-balloon comedy of mistaken identity. A struggling (and losing badly) Simon-and-Garfunkel-ish singing duo, in matching short-sleeve checked shirts and sleeveless V-necked red pullovers, is misidentified as a crackerjack safecracking team and framed by a Jewish mafioso into doing his bidding: knock over three safes of his choosing in one week or else. If this were (what is not too hard to imagine) a mainstream Hollywood production, the patsies could have been played by Adam Sandler, let's say, and David Schwimmer, but inasmuch as it's independent, they are Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn instead -- the only noticeable difference. The humor, in the main, is that of humans acting as little like humans as possible: as self-abasing, as self-ridiculing, as self-caricaturing, as unselfconscious. In sum, as unfunny. With Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, and Harvey Fierstein; written and directed by John Hamburg. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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