5. Quick Change (1990)
Warner BrosThe expression the part he was born to play is bandied around all too often in todays society, but Quick Change stars Bill Murray as a clown who robs a bank. You may argue that Murray playing literally the sad clown is perhaps a little on-the-nose in terms of performance signs, but the key to Quick Change is that it legitimately works as a crime film; the way the narrative unfolds, certainly during the bank robbery, are moments that rival the best heist films, and the gangs escape without providing spoilers is genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raTOOlG1lhY The film also marks Murrays second foray behind the camera after 1984s The Razors Edge, written by Murray and based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, which, despite having its staunch defenders, is generally regarded as a bad film with much of the blame was placed on Murray. With Quick Change Murray turns director a responsibility shared with fellow first-time director Howard Franklin with much better results. Geena Davis is cast as the female lead, perhaps not coincidentally a doppelganger for Signourney Weaver, who famously played Murrays comic foil in Ghostbusters.