Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and PenΘlope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of producer/screenwriter Luc Besson (LA FEMME NIKITA, THE BIG BLUE), Bandidas marks one of only a handful of films in its genre to use women as its principals, and distinguishes itself further by adding hefty doses of comic relief to the Western formula. Hayek and Cruz play Sara and Maria, respectively -- two women whose fathers (one a banker, the other a peasant farmer) are each wiped out by a nasty, vile, gun-wielding swindler named Tyler Jackson (SLING BLADE co-star and country music singer Dwight Yoakam). Jackson cuts a bloody swath across the Southwest as he reduces one bank after another to an impoverished trash heap. In revenge, these women (who sit at opposite ends of the personality spectrum) vow to beat Tyler at his own game by hitting and robbing each of the banks before their father's killer can reach them.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Ariel Zeitoun, Luc Besson
EAN
5055201820846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109928901
Product Key Features
Actor
Sam Shepard, Steve Zahn, Denis Arndt, Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Dwight Yoakam
Film/TV Title
Bandidas
Director
Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning
Release Year
2011
Format
DVD
Language
English
Genre
General, Action & Adventure
Run Time
89 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
12A/12
Number of Discs
1
Screenwriter
Luc Besson
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Movie/TV Title
Bandidas
Consumer Advice
Contains moderate language, violence and sex references