Three Fugitives (1989) on Netflix
Just released after 14 armed bank robberies, Daniel Lucas walks into a bank. Ned Perry holds it up and takes Lucas hostage, and Detective Dugan assumes the two are in it together.
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Plot summary
Daniel Lucas leaves prison after serving time for armed robbery and goes to a bank to open an account. Ned Perry walks in, holds the bank up and takes Lucas hostage, then takes him outside. Detective Dugan, who knows Lucas's record, assumes the two men are working together and leads the manhunt. Perry says he robbed the bank to pay for treatment for his daughter Meg, who is six and has not spoken since her mother died, and to keep custody of her. Left with no choice, Lucas has to get the two of them away from the police.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Three Fugitives (1989)
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- Disney offered Veber directing duties on Big Business, which would have been his first time directing from a script he had not written himself. He passed, citing a Paramount project that would have starred Eddie Murphy as an African king dethroned while visiting America, which collapsed after Murphy's associates advised him against it.
- It is a remake of Les Fugitifs, a 1986 French comedy starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard that Veber had also directed himself.
- This was the final film appearance of character actor Kenneth McMillan, who takes a supporting role alongside Sarah Doroff, James Earl Jones and Alan Ruck.
