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Quick Change is a 1990 comedy film starring Bill Murray, who also co-directed with the film's screenwriter Howard Franklin. Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards co-star. Other cast members include Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Phil Hartman, Victor Argo, Kurtwood Smith, Bob Elliott, and Phillip Bosco. It is a remake of a 1985 French-Canadian film entitled Hold-Up.

The film is set in New York City, particularly in Manhattan and Queens, with scenes taking place on the New York City Subway and within John F. Kennedy International Airport. Times Square, the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty are also briefly seen.

Plot

Murray's character Grimm, dressed as a clown, robs a bank in Midtown Manhattan by ingeniously setting up a hostage situation and slipping away with an enormous sum of money. He then tries to leave town with his accomplices, played by Davis and Quaid. However, it appears that all of New York City is against their escape. A con-artist/thief robs the trio of everything except the bank money, which they have taped under their clothes. They are almost gunned down by the stressed incoming tenent (Hartman) of Grimm's apartment, as members of the fire department smash their hydrant-blocking car while responding to a call. When the trio flags down a cab, the panicky driver (Shalhoub) is revealed to be relentlessly non-fluent in English. Davis's character finally gets a chance to announce that she is pregnant with Grimm's child. An anal-retentive bus driver (Bosco) and a run-in with some mobsters add further complications. Throughout the course of the flick, Jason Robards, playing the world-weary chief of the New York City Police Department, doggedly but fruitlessly tries to nab the trio. A final confrontation onboard a jumbo jet at the airport allows the robbers to escape, but the chief gets the consolation prize of having a major crime-boss (Smith) dropped in his lap.

Critical Reaction

This little-known film features what many critics claim one of Murray's finest performances: a jaded man who has just had too much of The Big Apple. The film also features strong performance by the supporting cast, particularly Robards as the cop, who, while almost as burned out as Murray, is still determined to capture the robbers as a swan song to finish his long career.

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