Excess Baggage

Watch "Excess Baggage" (1997) online on iFILM — a crime-comedy directed by Marco Brambilla, with Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro doing most of the heavy lifting.

Emily is a rich girl whose father's attention she cannot buy, so she fakes her own kidnapping: tape on the wrists, voice disguiser, and a wait in the trunk of her own BMW. Then professional car thief Vincent — played by del Toro with that slow, unreadable calm he does so well — steals that exact car. Neither of them is quite what the other expected.

Christopher Walken turns up as Emily's uncle, which is all the context you need for his scenes. Shot in 1997 with Silverstone still riding the wave from "Clueless," the film is a quick, easy watch — an action road trip built on the comedy of two very different people stuck in a situation nobody planned. Stream "Excess Baggage" (1997) on iFILM.