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p 18 the tribune thursday julyt7 1997 st thetribune arts entertainment new comedy is a laughfueled crosscountry joy ride screen scene stuart green on paper the pairing of daffy foulmouthed standup comic turned sitcom regular turned movie star martin lawrence and the more refined tim rob- bins may look like a match made in hell but on screen theyre one of the best salt and pepper comic teams since eddie murphy and nick nolte spent 48 hours to gether in nothing to lose robbins stars as advertising executive nick beam a man for whom everything is going right his job is fulfilling and his marriage to the beautiful ann kelly preston is picture per fect that is until he discovers his wife may be having an affair with his dorky boss michael mckean despondent and feeling deeply betrayed by both he starts driving aimlessly around los angeles and ends up on 9 life nik ifiiii the wrong side of town there hes car jacked by t paul lawrence a down-on-his- luck hustler trying to make ends meet after informing t that hes picked the wrong guy on the wrong day beam ends up dri ving all the way to arizona with the reluctant carjacker on board spending so much time to gether the two form an odd bond in their failures and de vise a scheme to rip off nicks boss one that will allow t to get back on his feet and nick to get even with the philanderer but things start to go wrong when they decide to play small time crooks in order to work their way up to the big job they become the subject of a national manhunt and they cross two real bad guys john c mcginley and giancarlo es- posito who decide they want in on nick and ts action nothing to lose is an inven tive comedy road movie made even better by the genuine chemistry between lawrence and robbins their ability to feed off each other moves things along at a breakneck pace it helps that writerdirector steve oedekerk responsible for writing the hideous ace ventura pet detective and writing and directing its even more atrocious sequel is able to rein them in before things get too ludicrous something he was unable or unwilling to do with jim carrey the films weakest moments come when oedekerk tries to inject sentimentality as it rarely touches a nerve but when lawrence and rob bins are in control nothing to lose is a laughfueled cross country joy ride jflh lllllltl lip piiailte vx- 1 18 cssssvj5ss double shot tim robbins left a successful advertising executive whose wife is having an affair with his boss and martin lawrence a petty thief team up to j seek revenge and fortune in new sharpedged comedy nothing to lose