Charming bank robber Jack Foley escapes from prison and takes a female Federal Marshal hostage. Foley and the marshal fall in love, though both suspect a happy ending is not on the cards - especially since she's part of the manhunt to put him back behind bars.

There are plenty of crime caper elements mixed in with the comedy and romance, including no small amount of bloodshed, but even then the film seems entirely cohesive. There's nothing particularly deep or intensely memorable about Out of Sight. Indeed, the pace flags a bit at times as it tries to keep up with all its characters - but it's the kind of film that punches holes in the notion that "entertaining" and "smart" are mutually exclusive adjectives for a summer film. This is pure pulp pleasure, the cinematic equivalent of great beach reading.

Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) is a former Franciscan monk who suffers stigmata and has the ability to cure the incurable by his touch. He left the jungles of Brazil to work with alcoholic patients at the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles. When stories of his apparently miraculous powers become widely known, he finds himself pursued by con men, fanatics and hustlers who are out to exploit him. Amongst his would-be exploiters are a revivalist (Christopher Walken), a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), a record promoter (Paul Mazursky), a biographer (Janeane Garofalo) and a TV host (Gina Gershon). Bridget Fonda is a former baton twirler who is coaxed by Walken to infiltrate Sacred Heart in order to get close to Juvenal and win him over, but discovers that he is a good person and is won over herself. This comedy is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard and has his trademark wit, colourful dialogue and oddball characters.