movie poster for HAPPY TEXAS

Flicks ID

9052

Cert

12

Running time

94 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

HAPPY TEXAS (1999)

MARK ILLSLEY

Plot

Cheap and cheerful comedy gem, made for under one million bucks but none the worse for it. Jeremy Northam and rising star Steve Zahn play a couple of chain-gang escapees who pose as gay lovers while planning a bank robbery, and wind up organising a junior beauty pageant, choreography and all. William H. Macy almost, though not quite, steals the show as the sexually confused local sheriff, while Zahn manages to be endearing rather than irritating in his goofball role.