Bill Paxton 18. Pass The Ammo (1988)
Badly written, badly directed and badly edited.
This movie is a mess of stilted cuts, non-flowing storyline, with confused and one-dimensional characters.
Paxton is the boyfriend, whose girlfriend's mother has given all her inheritance away to a televangelist just before the mother dies. They plot an ill-conceived scheme to rob them while on air, because a church/TV studio is easiest to rob during live production.
For some reason, all phone donations arrive at the church in cash, even though cheques are still a hugely popular form of payment in the US (5% of adult Americans still don't have a bank account, instead they cash them at pawn shops and cheque cashing companies).
They end up taking everyone hostage live on TV, that is being broadcast by an unstoppable satellite signal, so the feed can't be cut.
Their getaway driver gets gunned down by the cops, but he didn't have any speaking parts, so he's quickly forgotten.
The movie is cut into muddled vignettes, seemingly at random, whereby they try to add some depth to the characters, but ultimately fail on all accounts.
The climax occurs when the crazy hillbillies (who have been watching on TV and decide to save the reverend) turn up with a small army of vigilantes and attack the church from one side and the church leaders who have called in the governer who has brought along the army (including a tank) who attack from the other side.
The church is destroyed, the 2 cousins who just got out of prison get arrested, the boyfriend and girlfriend (now married) escape and run off into the forest with a few small bags of cash.
Starring
Debra Sue Maffett, bit part for former Miss America 1983. Hosted many TV talk shows, and now works in the televangelist field as a media consultant. Brian Thompson, plays a shirtless Samson, has 17 on-screen deaths from his 103 roles, notably terminator fist through the stomach ("Wash day, nothing clean, right?") and twice by Buffy as 2 different characters.
Anthony Geary, as a hippie named Stonewall (riots), who helps their cause. Best known as Luke Spencer (900 episodes) on General Hospital, where he played a hitman, who later raped and then married his victim. The marriage (broadcast in 1981) is still the biggest rating hit for a daytime soap.
Annie Potts, crazed christian preacher, starred in 2 shows, Any Day Now and Designing Women, best known as Janine Melnitz from Ghostbusters and the Toy Story voice of Bo Peep (currently as Meemaw on Young Sheldon).
Tim Curry, as the Reverand. Famous for so much I can't list it all. Linda Kozlowski, the girlfriend who lost her money, best (and pretty much only) known as Sue Charlton from Crocodile Dundee, who would go on to marry Paul Hogan.
Badly written, badly directed and badly edited.
This movie is a mess of stilted cuts, non-flowing storyline, with confused and one-dimensional characters.
Paxton is the boyfriend, whose girlfriend's mother has given all her inheritance away to a televangelist just before the mother dies. They plot an ill-conceived scheme to rob them while on air, because a church/TV studio is easiest to rob during live production.
For some reason, all phone donations arrive at the church in cash, even though cheques are still a hugely popular form of payment in the US (5% of adult Americans still don't have a bank account, instead they cash them at pawn shops and cheque cashing companies).
They end up taking everyone hostage live on TV, that is being broadcast by an unstoppable satellite signal, so the feed can't be cut.
Their getaway driver gets gunned down by the cops, but he didn't have any speaking parts, so he's quickly forgotten.
The movie is cut into muddled vignettes, seemingly at random, whereby they try to add some depth to the characters, but ultimately fail on all accounts.
The climax occurs when the crazy hillbillies (who have been watching on TV and decide to save the reverend) turn up with a small army of vigilantes and attack the church from one side and the church leaders who have called in the governer who has brought along the army (including a tank) who attack from the other side.
The church is destroyed, the 2 cousins who just got out of prison get arrested, the boyfriend and girlfriend (now married) escape and run off into the forest with a few small bags of cash.
Starring
Debra Sue Maffett, bit part for former Miss America 1983. Hosted many TV talk shows, and now works in the televangelist field as a media consultant. Brian Thompson, plays a shirtless Samson, has 17 on-screen deaths from his 103 roles, notably terminator fist through the stomach ("Wash day, nothing clean, right?") and twice by Buffy as 2 different characters.
Anthony Geary, as a hippie named Stonewall (riots), who helps their cause. Best known as Luke Spencer (900 episodes) on General Hospital, where he played a hitman, who later raped and then married his victim. The marriage (broadcast in 1981) is still the biggest rating hit for a daytime soap.
Annie Potts, crazed christian preacher, starred in 2 shows, Any Day Now and Designing Women, best known as Janine Melnitz from Ghostbusters and the Toy Story voice of Bo Peep (currently as Meemaw on Young Sheldon).
Tim Curry, as the Reverand. Famous for so much I can't list it all. Linda Kozlowski, the girlfriend who lost her money, best (and pretty much only) known as Sue Charlton from Crocodile Dundee, who would go on to marry Paul Hogan.