
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.... (Full plot summary below)
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On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
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| Washington PostRita KempleyDespite its herky-jerky pace and aimlessness of plot, Three Fugitives is engaging sport, primarily enjoyable for the hearty teamwork of Nolte and Short -- a comedic contretemps as bruising as a Punch and Judy show. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenGiven such a cloying and utterly predictable plot, it's surprising that Three Fugitives works as well as it does. Nolte, all big shoulders and bashfulness shows a pleasant self-deprecating talent and copes very well with the array of humiliations ranged against him. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThis obvious attempt to tap into the same audience that flocked to THREE MEN AND A BABY (indeed, it could have been titled "Two Men and a Toddler") is about as lifeless as they come. Not only is THREE FUGITIVES a scene-for-scene remake of Veber's French original, it is actually shot for shot the same film. Not surprisingly, the resulting film feels mechanical, despite engaging performances from Short and Nolte. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThis comedy has the earmarks of humor and even a few genuine laughs, but it also has a prefabricated, automatic-pilot feeling. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasNick Nolte and Martin Short make a frequently hilarious odd couple, but the film itself is shamelessly sentimental and often slapdash. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloViolence and profanity in unfunny, dated '80s comedy. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelThe film never adequately uses either the dramatic talents of Nolte nor the comic talents of Short. The young girl (Sarah Rowland Doroff) is most effective because she rarely speaks. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarIt would be wrong to blame Martin Short alone for the failure of Three Fugitives. Francis Veber, the French filmmaker who wrote and directed the film, must accept much of the responsibility. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonFrancis Veber's Three Fugitives, a heist caper, starts off with comic promise then limps all the way from the bank. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawInteresting now only as a better-forgotten relic of a time in which people actually paid full-ticket price to see Martin Short in a movie. |