History Film / BandOfRobbers

* FiveManBand: Well...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Band]]: Tom is TheLeader, Huck is TheLancer, Ben and Harper are both variations of TheBigGuy (although Harper serves mainly as a one--man GroupieBrigade), and Tommy Barnes (played by Johnny Pemberton) is the OnlySaneMan; there really isn't an example of TheSmartGuy in this crew...

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The following line is the most notable example:
-->'''Tom:''' [to Becky] ''Enchanté'' -- after you.

* ZanyScheme: Tom is established as practically devoting his life to these; also, real crimes like the heist planned by the Band are portrayed (and seen) as these...until Injun Joe comes into things and RealityEnsues.

** Ben's insistence to be called the [[AtrociousAlias "cool" name]] of "Greg Knife" during the holdup results in the SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* TheSlacker: Tom.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Tom Sawyer.
* StupidCrooks: The Band of Robbers, of course.

* [[spoiler: WealthyEverAfter]]: [[spoiler: The fate of Harper, Ben, and Barnes after the Band successfully finds Murrell's Treasure.]]

* [[spoiler: WorthlessTreasureTwist]]: Subverted/zig-zagged: [[spoiler: when the Band steals what they believe is Murrell's Treasure, it turns out to merely be just over $200 in bills and a rusty pewter coin; however, the coin turns out to be a clue to finding the ''real'' Murrell's Treasure, which is indeed real and valuable.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Tom Sawyer.

* ZanyScheme: Tom is established as practically devoting his life to these; also, real crimes like the heist planned by the Band are portrayed (and seen) as these...until Injun Joe comes into things and RealityEnsues.

Recently released ex-convict Huckleberry Finn (played by Kyle Gallner) is trying to "go straight", but his childhood friend, underachieving cop Tom Sawyer (played by Adam Nee), has other plans. The two form the "Band of Robbers" with their bumbling friends, Joe Harper (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) and Ben Rogers (played by Hannibal Buress), and plan to rob a pawnshop where local legend Injun Joe (played by Creator/StephenLang) -- a vicious [[ForeignCultureFetish white criminal and treasure hunter who imitates Native American culture]] -- has stored a mysterious package that Tom's friend and contact Muff Potter (played by Cooper Huckabee) believes is the legendary [[PirateBooty Murrell's Treasure]], for which Tom and Huck have been searching since childhood; Tom uses the logic that robbing "bad guys" makes the Band "good guys". Things get complicated when Tom's commanding officer, Lieutenant Polly (played by Lee Garlington) -- who Tom, living under the shadow of his more successful detective half brother, Sid (played by Eric Christian Olsen), has frequently begged for more responsibility on duty -- assigns him to train Becky Thatcher (played by Creator/MelissaBenoist), his eager-to-please rookie partner, and the hung-over Band's heist goes awry. Tom is undaunted, however, and leads the Band on a wild treasure hunt from one mysterious clue to another. When Huck's friend, [[EthnicMenialLabor Mexican day laborer]] Jorge Jiminez (played by Daniel Edward Mora), who unknowingly served as the Band's driver during the heist, is mistaken as being a conspirator in their activities and arrested, Huck and Tom, on the run from a vengeful and murderous Injun Joe and the police, lead the band on a mission to rescue Jorge and be the heroes they always wanted to become.

[[caption-width-right:350: "Tom and Huck are all grown up...sort of..."]]

'''''Band of Robbers''''' is a 2015 [[SettingUpdate modernization]] of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' and ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' by Creator/MarkTwain directed by siblings Adam & Aaron Nee (the former previously an ensemble cast member on ''Series/DrunkHistory''). The story draws heavily from Twain's classic novels, including characters, plot twists, and even dialogue.

** Ben's insistence to be called the [[AtrociousAlias "cool" name]] of "Greg Knife" during the holdup results in the CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* BadassGrandpa: Doc Robinson (played by Jack Wallace), the mortician[[spoiler:...until he's quickly killed by the much more bloodthirsty, unstable Injun Joe.]]

* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: [[spoiler: Huck says this about his journey to take Jorge home in the epilogue, though snippets are shown visually and it seems to be a [[MythologyGag reference to ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''.]]

* RunningGag: When Huck says that Injun Joe is in fact a white man and not a Native American, Harper asks why he calls himself this, to which Tom replies, "I guess he just identifies with the culture and the aesthetic." Harper asks, "But isn't that kinda racist?", to which Ben poses the question, "How is it racist to want to be ''another'' race?" Later, when Harper is ambushed by Injun Joe in his car, he asks Joe the same questions to his face, to which Joe gives the exact same responses near-verbatim.

* AdaptationalContextChange: The AgeLift of the characters puts emphasis on the coming-of-age elements in Twain's novels.

* CloudCuckoolander: Tom, Harper, and Ben.

** In ''Tom Sawyer'', Tom's schoolmaster is named Mr. Dobbins; in ''Band of Robbers'', Dobbins is the name of he owner of the pawnshop that the Band robs -- and is played by none other than Creed Bratton (of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' and The Grass Roots)!
** In the film's epilogue, Huck's "adventure" to take Jorge home shows (though they are not named) two men who are clearly intended to be the characters of "The Duke" and "The King" from Twain's ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''; As [[TheCameo cameos]], The King is played by filmmaker Rick Rosenthal (director of such flms as ''Film/HalloweenII1981'', ''Russkies'', ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'', the 1983 Creator/SeanPenn vehicle ''Bad Boys'', and ''The Birds II: Land's End'', and producer of ''BandOfRobbers'' itself), and The Duke by Zach Steel (the voice of Ronaldo on ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'').

* HenpeckedHusband: Though they seem to be reasonably happy, Tommy Barnes seems to be one to his wife (and Tom's ex-fiancée) Amy Lawrence (played by Maria Blasucci)

* PuppyLove: Tom and Becky, of course.

* ShipperOnDeck: If [[spoiler: his wink to Tom when Tom hands him a letter to give to Becky as Tom goes to sacrifice himself for the Band at the end of the film]] is any indication, Ben Rogers is one.

* WhatTheHellHero: Huck gets in one of these towards Tom towards the end of the film.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Subverted/zig-zagged: [[spoiler: when the Band steals what they believe is Murrell's Treasure, it turns out to merely be just over $200 in bills and a rusty pewter coin; however, the coin turns out to be a clue to finding the ''real'' Murrell's Treasure, which is indeed real and valuable.]]

-->'''Tom:''' [to Becky] ''Enchanté'' -- after you.

* AgeLift: The film ''is'' about

Recently released ex-convict Huckleberry Finn (played by Kyle Gallner) is trying to "go straight", but his childhood friend, underachieving cop Tom Sawyer (played by Adam Nee), has other plans. The two form the "Band of Robbers" with their bumbling friends, Joe Harper (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) and Ben Rogers (played by Hannibal Buress), and plan to rob a pawnshop where local legend Injun Joe (played by Creator/StephenLang) -- a vicious [[ForeignCultureFetish white criminal and treasure hunter who imitates Native American culture]] -- has stored a mysterious package that Tom's friend and contact Muff Potter (played by Cooper Huckabee) believes is the legendary [[PirateBooty Murrell's Treasure]], for which Tom and Huck have been searching since childhood; Tom uses the logic that robbing "bad guys" makes the Band "good guys". Things get complicated when Tom's commanding officer, Lieutenant Polly (played by Lee Garlington) -- who Tom, living under the shadow of his more successful detective half brother, Sid (played by Eric Christian Olsen), has frequently begged for more responsibility on duty -- assigns him to train Becky Thatcher (played by Creator/MelissaBenoist), his eager-to-please rookie partner, and the hung-over Band's heist goes awry. Tom is undaunted, however, and leads the Band on a wild treasure hunt from one mysterious clue to another. When Huck's friend, Mexican day laborer Jorge Jiminez (played by Daniel Edward Mora), who unknowingly served as the Band's driver during the heist, is mistaken as being a conspirator in their activities and arrested, Huck and Tom, on the run from a vengeful and murderous Injun Joe and the police, lead the band on a mission to rescue Jorge and be the heroes they always wanted to become.

* FanGirl: Joe Harper is practically Tom's groupie.

* RaceLift: Injun Joe, a white/Native American "half-breed" in ''Tom Sawyer'', is now a white man played by Creator/StephenLang -- allowing the film to make a point and derive humor from frequent Hollywood whitewashing -- and Jim, an African-American slave in ''Huckleberry Finn'', is now a Mexican immigrant [[AdaptationNameChange renamed]] Jorge Jiminez.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Muff, an amiable ally towards Tom and Huck in Twain's ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', [[Dirty Coward caves in to Injun Joe's threats]] and aids him in his search for Tom, Huck, and Murrell's treasure in the climax. [[spoiler: He also seems to suffer from DeathByAdaptation when he and Injun's henchman Packard drive Tom's squad car into the river, though this is not entirely confirmed as the event was offscreen.]]

'''''Band of Robbers''''' is a 2015 [[SettingUpdate modernisation]] of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' and ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' by Creator/MarkTwain directed by siblings Adam & Aaron Nee (the former previously an ensemble cast member on ''Series/DrunkHistory''.

Recently released ex-convict Huckleberry Finn (played by Kyle Gallner) is trying to "go straight", but his childhood friend, underachieving cop Tom Sawyer (played by Adam Nee), has other plans. The two form the "Band of Robbers" with their bumbling friends, Joe Harper (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) and Ben Rogers (played by Hannibal Buress), and plan to rob a pawnshop where local legend Injun Joe (played by Creator/StephenLang) -- a [[ForeignCultureFetish white criminal and treasure hunter who imitates Native American culture]] --