A New Wave (2006)

Director


Main cast
Andrew Keegan

Genres
Action, Comedy

Description
A frustrated artist is convinced by his eccentric roommate to rob a bank. Having planned the crime by watching bank-robber films, the amateur heist is doomed from the beginning.


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