Amos & Andrew

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$9.7M

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation house on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his house with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake, and to avoid the bad publicity offers Amos Odell, a thief in his jail, a deal. Amos is to pretend to take Andrew prisoner and hold him for ransom, but let him go and escape. Amos and Andrew suddenly realize that the Chief's problems are all gone if the two of them both die in a gun battle. The worst partnership in film history then tries to get away from the local police.

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Genres

Comedy, Crime

Director

E. Max Frye

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Lerner

Released

5 March 1993

Runtime

1h 36m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

5.7 / 10

Votes

10,271

Metascore

38

Rotten Tomatoes

17%

Box office

$9,745,803

Edition

Base