Bottle Rocket

★★★★★

“They're not really criminals, but everyone's got to have a dream.”

1996 · 1 h 31 min

Directed by Wes Anderson

ComedyCrimeDrama

Watch trailer

Cast

Luke Wilson Owen Wilson

Credits

Written by: Owen Wilson

Plot

Friends plan a robbery.

Sinekatalog’s take

Wes Anderson's first feature is a loose, funny crime-comedy about hopeless amateurs. Rough but charming, it shows his deadpan humour and affection for misfits in an early, scruffy form.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (89,234 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

If you liked this

Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.

• The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 · Wes Anderson · IMDb 7.6 · Same director
• The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 · Wes Anderson · IMDb 8.1 · Same director
• Logan Lucky 2017 · Steven Soderbergh · IMDb 7.0 · Viewers also liked
• Out of Sight 1998 · Steven Soderbergh · IMDb 7.0 · Same movement
• Amateur 1994 · Hal Hartley · IMDb 6.7 · Same movement
• Mystery Train 1989 · Jim Jarmusch · IMDb 7.5 · Same movement