It didn't live up its name...
A 1986 film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, also the film's star. John Wisdom (Estevez) and his girlfriend Karen (Demi Moorenote ) go on a cross-country crime spree...This work exhibits the following tropes
- Artistic Licence – Economics: Wisdom goes on a bank-robbing spree, but not to steal money. Instead, he and Karen destroy bank property records to help farmers. The film was released in 1986, a time when American farmers were having problems keeping their farms. The banks were seen to be the bad guys because they were the ones foreclosing when the farmers couldn't make the payments on the loans. In the film, John Wisdom is seen as a modern-day Robin Hood because he saves the farmers from foreclosure. Apparently, in the movie, the banks that are hit only have one copy of the records and when Wisdom destroys these records, there are no ill effects on the local economies. There have been times when that would have worked - medieval serf rebellions often made a point of destroying any records proving who were serfs so that any survivors could then pass themselves as yeomen - but it doesn't work well in an era with photocopiers.
- Downer Ending: Wisdom is gunned down resisting arrest. Although Karen survives, she's been shot and accidentally killed a sheriff so she may very well go to prison. Luckily It Was All A Dream. No, really.
- Just Like Robin Hood: They hold up banks - to burn the bank records of poor farmers and indebted families.
- It Was All A Dream: Everything in the movie after he leaves his parents' bathroom is his pre-job interview dream.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Why Wisdom goes on a crime spree. He can't get a job because he stole a car while drunk after graduation.
