The general premise is that a yuppie ad executive (Tim Robbins) comes home one day and finds his wife in the sack with another man. The then discovers that the other man is his slimy, sex-crazed boss. Instead of confronting them, he walks out and drives aimlessly around LA. He drives into a bad neighborhood and gets carjacked by a fast-talking hood (Lawrence). Instead of surrendering, he locks the hood into the car and heads out of town. Way out of town, like to Arizona. There, they form an uneasy alliance, until Lawrence robs a convenience store. They wind up being chased by a pair of REAL criminals who think that Robbins and Lawrence are taking over their territory.
They return to LA, and we discover that Lawrence's character is actually a loving family man who turned to crime because he couldn't get a job as an electronics expert. They break into Robbin's boss's office, steal his money, and Robbins destroys his boss's prize archeologic find - a Mayan fertility god statue who must've taken Viagra. He "bobbits" the statue, gives his boss the finger on the security camera, then heads out.
Rebecca plays Danielle, a flower shop employee who has a thing for Robbins. She sees him in a hotel bar, picks him up, and they proceed to almost do the horizontal bop. However, he's too devoted to his wife. RG plays a stereotypical bimbo role. We certainly get to see a LOT more of her than in E2! Including a black bra and garter belt. (Down, Chris!) Unfortunately, she's only in two scenes, so we don't really know what happens after he leaves her room.
Well, everything sorts itself out in the end. Robbins goes home to his wife, keeps his job, and hires Lawrence to run the new security system in the building. Sigh. Nothing like a happy ending.
I found Nothing to Lose a refreshing buddy comedy. The personality quirks of the characters made the movie. It reminds me of the Coen Brothers, or even David Lynch on Prozac. I'm pretty sure that Nothing to Lose was the movie that caused Rebecca to miss NP96, because her fiancee was directing it. If this was indeed the work of her fiancee, she married a very twisted guy. Talented, but very twisted.
In all, I give Nothing To Lose four and a half Mayan fertility
god statues out of five. I would give it five, but Tim Robbins destroyed
one.