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Pups

Play trailer Poster for Pups R,  1999,  1h 43m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 90% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 73% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
90% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.

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Robert Koehler Variety Feb 14, 2001
The crisp images and Bill Foster's unnerving ambient sound of hovering copters enormously aid this low-budget powder keg. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Jan 1, 2000
B+
Ash ... is a genuine provocateur-filmmaker. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000
3/4
Pups looks ragged and slammed-together, but that's part of its appeal; the film has a wildness that more care would have killed. Go to Full Review
Josh Ralske All Movie Guide Oct 26, 2007
5/10
If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 14, 2005
2/5
Brent Simon Entertainment Today Sep 12, 2002
3/5
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Cast & Crew

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Ash Baron-Cohen

Director

Cameron Van Hoy

Stevie

Mischa Barton

Rocky

Burt Reynolds

Daniel Bender

Adam Farrar

Wheelchair Man

David Alan Graf

Bank Manager

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Movie Info

Synopsis When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.
Director
Ash Baron-Cohen
Producer
Ash Baron-Cohen, Daniel M Berger
Screenwriter
Ash Baron-Cohen
Production Co
Allied Entertainment Group Inc., Team Okuyama, Fire Heart Films Inc, Eagle Eye Films Inc.
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 18, 1999, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 18, 2000
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.4K
Runtime
1h 43m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby
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