Bottle Rocket is an excellent first feature from director Wes Anderson (who would go on to direct Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic) and firmly established him as the master of the quirky, understated, comedy. In a further notable 'first', Bottle Rocket also marks the feature film debut of brothers (and now regular Anderson collaborators) Owen and Luke Wilson, who both give performances that helped to firmly establish them among the greatest comedy actors of recent times. Luke Wilson plays newly released mental patient Anthony while Owen Wilson is Anthony's best friend Dignan. Once reunited in a non-instituational setting, Anthony and Dignan quickly fall back into their old ways of petty thievery and absurb heists, knocking off everything from meat packing plants to bookshops. Realising that they're never going to be taken seriously as criminals while they have to rely on public transport, Anthony and Dignan recruit Bob Mapplethorpe (played by Robert Musgrave) to be their getaway driver. After the affair at the bookshop, the hapless trio are forced to flee across the state and hide out in a motel where they encounter Inez, a non-English speaking maid who Anthony promptly falls in love with. Eventually the meat packing plant proves to be a caper too far and the motley gang of would-be criminals are forced to decide who makes a final getaway and who must stay to face the music. Although perhaps the least well known of Anderson's films, Bottle Rocket is quirky comedy at its best and cannot be recommended enough.