Word: jailbird
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AMOS (NICOLAS CAGE) DOESN'T BELONG on an upscale resort island; he's a habitual jailbird, scruffy and not quite bright. Andrew (Samuel L. Jackson) definitely does belong here; he's rich, famous and accomplished. The problem is that he's black, which means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know...
FRANK MORGAN: A LOVESOME THING (Antilles). Ex-jailbird Morgan continues his comeback -- and feeds his legend -- with another dazzling performance on the alto sax. Up-and-coming trumpet phenomenon Roy Hargrove, 21, makes an impressive guest appearance...
...thin young man with the look of an unslept jailbird -- he is wanted by the army, like his best friend who was killed just now -- stops for a second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately white wedding gown. The fugitive speaks with a distracted courtesy, wanting to be polite but needing to flee for his life, and then vanishes into an alley. The owner of the shop slams down his steel curtain over the window with the wedding gown. The mannequin bride goes blank...
Back then, Eddie Murphy shot to stardom as a jailbird sprung to help Cop Nick Nolte catch a psychopath. This time Schwarzenegger is a Soviet policeman trailing three vicious cocaine smugglers to Chicago, and his partner in crime busting is Jim Belushi, a detective with a good arrest record and a bad attitude. It's glasnost with a gut punch -- Communism and capitalism partnered to crush the evil empire of recreational drugs...
Residents of Wigglesworth Hall F-entry volunteered their rooms for a temporary jail, where prisoners were given classic jailbird garb of blackstriped hats and shirts to wear for the duration of their prison terms...