Excess Baggage (1997 film)

Excess Baggage
A blonde woman in a yellow jacket sitting on a white car
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMarco Brambilla
Screenplay by
Story byMax D. Adams
Produced by
  • Bill Borden
  • Carolyn Kessler
Starring
CinematographyJean-Yves Escoffier
Edited byStephen Rivkin
Music byJohn Lurie
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • August 29, 1997 (1997-08-29)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$14.5 million[1]

Excess Baggage is a 1997 American crime comedy film, written by Max D. Adams, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Marco Brambilla about a neglected young heiress who stages her own kidnapping to get her father's attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief. The film stars Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, and Christopher Walken. Upon release, it was a critical and commercial failure.

  1. ^ "Excess Baggage (1997)". Box Office Mojo. September 26, 1997. Retrieved October 9, 2010.