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Now comes “A Man, a Woman and a Bank,” Black’s most expensive and ambitious feature in a decade. It is ostensibly about a bank robbery. It stars the droll Donald Sutherland and the quixotic Paul Mazursky as the team of robbers, and the intelligent Brooke Adams as the photographer Sutherland falls in love with.
A thief, Reese Halperin, and his accomplice, computer expert Norman Barrie, devise a scheme to break into a Vancouver bank. While carrying out the bank's blueprints, Reese is inadvertently photographed by Stacey Bishop, who is taking pictures for the bank's advertising campaign.
Aug 8, 2022 · Solidly directed by Noel Black from a humorous screenplay by Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans and actor Stuart Margolin, A Man, a Woman, and a Bank tells the tale of friends Reese (Donald Sutherland) and Norman (Paul Mazursky), who devise an elaborate plan to rob a bank in Vancouver. Things get a bit complicated, however, when Reese falls in love ...
A Man, a Woman and a Bank: Directed by Noel Black. With Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky, Allan Kolman. The two least likely bank robbers in the known universe plan and execute... kind of... the ultimate heist.
- (546)
- Comedy, Crime
- Noel Black
- 1979-11-19
Donald Sutherland and Paul Marzursky are planning a bank robbery when Sutherland begins an affair with photographer Brooke Adams. In a stretching of their usual screen personas, Marzursky is neurotic and Miss Adams is quirky.
Overview. Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos.
Reese (Donald Sutherland), a clever civil engineer with a yen for the good life, asks his buddy Norman (Paul Mazursky), a computer expert, to join him in a robbery of a new bank that has an electronically controlled security system.
