Word: grimm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter to Sheila Grimm, regional director of the Census Bureau, Dinkins asked the bureau to review 11,900 city blocks--about 43 percent of the city's more than 28,000 residential blocks...
...movie's hero is Grimm (Bill Murray), a city planner who wants nothing more than to escape the city once and for all. Inexplicably, instead of buying a place in Connecticut, he opts for planning a million-dollar bank robbery that will allow him and his girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) and best friend Loomis (Randy Quaid) to spend the rest of their lives on a South Pacific island...
...fated afternoon, Grimm--as though to spite his name--dresses up as a clown, walks into a midtown bank, and takes everyone inside hostage. Of course, police snipers and SWAT teams, commanded by Chief Rotzinger (Jason Robards) surround the building within minutes. But Grimm has an ingenious escape plan--this is the cleverest part of the movie, so I won't give it away--and soon he and his pair of accomplices are on their way their way to JFK, Fiji and freedom. Or so they think...
...Grimm and friends get mired down by the usual unsavory Manhattan types, the action, too, quickly loses momentum...
Worst of all is Quaid, who plays a Sancho Panza to Murray's Don Quixote. Quaid seems to have forgotten that successful slapstick requires a great deal more than simply acting clumsy, and the audience soon grows as weary of his character's stumbling, bumbling and foot-dragging as Grimm and Phyllis do. By the last third of the movie, he has been reduced to a wheezing, red-faced wreck, and one wishes that his accomplices would simply turn him in to the cops and get on with their escape...