Martin Short chooses hulking Nick Nolte as a hostage during his one-man bank raid in this feisty comedy.

Nolte is a man just out of jail and he's out to go straight - until nervous Short skitters on to the scene, resolved to hijack the bank for enough money to keep his six-year-old daughter in her special school.

Nolte's tough guy is the best thing here and, of course, he becomes hopelessly embroiled with Short, which leads to some funny sequences.