Clive Boomer's Success

2020, 90 minutes

Clive Boomer's Success" is a story of intrigue, murder and a five million dollar heist.

It is an unbearably hot Friday when the bank's air conditioning overheats and causes the computer system to go awry. With the system being inoperative, the bank's safe must be manually opened on Monday morning. The bank manager gives two tellers separate halves of the combination. Set in a typical, close-knit neighbourhood, Peter Pisa, the fish store owner, is having a torrid affair with Rita Decroot, a bank teller with big dreams. She is also the girlfriend of reigning local gangster, Toto. Clive Boomer is a budding stand-up comedian and bank teller who owes a small fortune to Toto. Clive turns to Peter for assistance, and Peter agrees to take over the debt. In a cruel twist of fate, Toto seeks repayment by assigning Peter the task of killing Rita for her illicit liaison. Unable to do the deed, Peter gets Clive to handle it insisting she be allowed the luxury of one last sumptuous evening out. However, Rita is no fool. After having an expensive dinner with Clive, she brings up her idea. She knows that Clive has one half of the safe's combination. She has the other. Rita also knows that Toto's gang is planning to rob the bank on Monday morning. Rita convinces Clive that they should take the money for themselves before Monday opening. When he pulls out his gun to kill Rita, she instead uses it on one of Toto's young accomplices. Everything is effectively botched on the day of the heist. Only two manage to get out of it with money and freedom.

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