We're No Angels

Two convicts break out of a prison in the United States near the Canadian border and try to slip past the authorities by dressing as priests, hoping to cross into Canada and disappear. Their plan goes sideways when the people of a small border town mistake them for a pair of visiting clergymen and welcome them into the local religious community, forcing the two men to keep up an act they never intended to sustain. The arrival of Molly, a young woman in the town, complicates their pretence further, and the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to hold on to their original scheme.

Neil Jordan directed the film, the fourth of the fifteen features he has made in chronological order, arriving between High Spirits in 1988 and The Crying Game in 1992. David Mamet wrote the screenplay, Art Linson produced, and the cast is led by Robert De Niro as Ned, Sean Penn as Jim and Demi Moore as Molly, with Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby and Ray McAnally in supporting roles. Thirty-one performers and fifty-seven crew members are credited.

Paramount backed the production with a budget of about twenty million dollars, and it took in roughly eleven million worldwide, well short of its cost. On IMDb it holds 6.1 out of 10 from around 26,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.2 out of 10 from 562 votes. A critics' rating of 5.2 out of 10 from 21 reviews places it below both audience scores.