Bandidas (2006)

Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek play south-of-the-border Thelma and Louise in this comedy/action film. Fed up with being pushed around, the ladies take up bank-robbing and find new leases on life.

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Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of producer/screenwriter Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue), Bandidas marks one of only a handful of films in its genre (along with Bad Girls, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, and Johnny Guitar) to use women as its principals, and distinguishes itself further by adding hefty doses of comic relief to the Western formula. Hayek and Cruz play Sara and Maria, respectively -- two women whose fathers (one a banker, the other a peasant farmer) are each wiped out by a nasty, vile, gun-wielding swindle...
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r named Tyler Jackson (Sling Blade co-star and country music singer Dwight Yoakam). Jackson cuts a bloody swath across the Southwest as he reduces one bank after another to an impoverished trash heap. In revenge, these women (who sit at opposite ends of the personality spectrum) vow to beat Tyler at his own game by hitting and robbing each of the banks before their father's killer can reach them. Steve Zahn co-stars as the "criminal science" officer who aids the girls in their mission; Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning co-direct.
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This comedy western follows the exploits of two feisty female bank robbers.

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Sara Sandoval en Maria Alvarez zijn elkaars tegenpolen. Het enige dat ze gemeen hebben is hun Mexicaanse afkomst. Sara is de keurig opgevoede dochter van een rijke Mexicaanse bankier en Maria is de dochter van een arme Mexicaanse boer. Als Tyler Jackson, vertegenwoordiger van de bank van New York, Sara's vader vermoordt en het land van Maria's vader inpikt, hebben de dames ineens iets gemeen: ze willen wraak. Alhoewel ze elkaar in eerste instantie niet vertrouwen, worden ze gedwongen samen te werken in hun strijd tegen Tyler Jackson en zijn moordlustige bende.

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