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The Mary Poppins Returns star shares her favorite new movie, and the docuseries she's obsessed with. See what's on her Watchlist. Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory. Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention. Though it's been about twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection. An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling, and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend. As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.
A bounty hunter chases and catches suspects all over Miami.
He ends up getting shot at and start to second guess his job as a bounty hunter. While he feels he need to be making more and Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct. Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
When a man Robbins believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber Lawrence tries to take his money at gunpoint, but instead sets a wild ride from California to Arizona. The two eventually become reluctant friends.
Discussing robbery techniques, they decide to get back at the boss by robbing an office safe containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life is further complicated by another pair of robbers who chase the first two for infringing on their territory.
What does one get when one mixes two different types of actors as the leads in a comedy?: Not being a fan of Mr. Lawrence's style of comedy, we decided to take a gamble on this film that came and went without much fanfare. In fact, we had no expectations whatsoever as to what to expect because even the trailers we remember seeing at the time before its release didn't show anything of interest.
Nothing to Lose is a American action comedy film starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Steve Oedekerk, who also wrote the. Tim Robbins and Steve Oedekerk in Nothing to Lose () Tim Robbins and Kelly Preston in Nothing to Lose () Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence in.
Lawrence, guided by the expert hand of Mr. Oederkerk, shows a man that can deliver without resorting to his usual excesses. Tim Robbins on the other hand shows an uncanny flair for this type of comedy and a chemistry for his co-star. Both these actors are seen at their best in the comedy.
There are also good supporting players behind the stars. On the edge of a nervous breakdown , Nick drives around the city until carjacker T.
Paul Martin Lawrence jumps into his car and attempts to rob him. Turning the tables on his mugger, Nick kidnaps T. Paul and drives him to the Arizona desert. Paul robs a gas station, the pair devise a scheme to rob Philip in revenge for the affair. Nick knows the combination to a safe in his office containing a large amount of cash, as well as the best time to enter, and where not to venture in the building. Paul knows the weaknesses of the security system, how to avoid the cameras, and how to get through any electronic locks that they might encounter. McGinley and Giancarlo Esposito get blamed for the gas-station robbery and pursue the pair to Los Angeles.
The duo ram Nick's truck off the road and hold them at gunpoint. After a brief confrontation, T. Paul manages to disarm them, but accidentally shoots Nick in the arm. They make their escape as T.
Paul takes Nick to his apartment so his wife can bandage his arm; while there, Nick peruses T. Paul's electrical engineering certification and a stack of rejection letters from employers. The next night, the pair execute their plan.
During the robbery, Nick damages his boss' prize fertility statue and reveals himself to the security camera, taunting his boss about getting revenge. The pair prolongedly avoid a security guard Steve Oedekerk and settle at a hotel.
The situation worsens as Rig and Charlie, who swiped Nick's business card and followed them from Nick's office to the hotel, hold T. Paul up, steal the money and place T. Paul in a trap for Nick to deal with when he returns from the bar and from almost having sex with Danielle Rebecca Gayheart , a flower shop woman Nick met earlier. Nick calls Ann to confront her, but she explains he was wrong about the apparent affair. Weekend Box Office Results: Nothing to Lose View All Photos 7.
Two men with nothing in common become unlikely companions in this comedy. Advertising executive Nick Beame Tim Robbins is not having a good day when he comes home from work to discover that his wife Ann Kelly Preston is having an affair with another man -- who, adding insult to injury, happens to be his boss, Phillip Barrow Michael McKean. Deeply depressed, Nick hops into his SUV and starts driving aimlessly.
He ends up in a rough neighborhood where a carjacker, T. Paul Martin Lawrence , pulls a gun and jumps in the passenger seat. Nick grumbles "Boy, did you pick the wrong guy on the wrong day," and, thinking he has no reason to live, heads out to the desert over T. Nick learns that T. Paul is actually a family man who has turned to crime because he can't get a job. Nick offers to help T. Paul, though crime is not one of his strong suits, and things get even more complicated when a pair of crooks, Rig John C.
McGinley and Charlie Giancarlo Esposito , start following them. Martin Lawrence as T. Tim Robbins as Nick Beam. Giancarlo Esposito as Charlie Dunt. Kelly Preston as Ann. Michael McKean as Phillip Barrow. Rebecca Gayheart as Danielle. Susan Barnes as Delores. Patrick Cranshaw as Henry. Samaria Graham as Lisa. Penny Bae Bridges as Tonya. Mary Jo Keenen as Grace. Steve Oedekerk as Baxter security guard.