Flypaper (2011 film)

Flypaper is a 2011 American crime comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff, written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and distributed by IFC Films. Starring Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd, the film centers around two groups of criminals that stick up the same bank at the same time, holding all of the employees and bystanders hostage. One of the hostages (Dempsey) escapes captivity and attempts to deduce the unusual double-robbery, waggishly courting the affection of a bank teller (Judd) in the process. Dempsey also produced the film alongside Mark Damon and Peter Safran.

Lucas and Moore had previously written The Hangover (2009), and met Minkoff in the months leading up to that film's release. Minkoff, best known for co-directing The Lion King (1994), expressed a desire to work with them, and agreed to head Flypaper when he learned they had written the script, which he described as "terrific." Filming took place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from June to September 2010.

Flypaper premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2011 and had a limited theatrical release on August 19 of the same year. It received generally negative reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing just $1.2 million against its $8 million budget.