THE BANDIT is a movie about 70s celebrity Burt Reynolds, his finest pal, roommate and stunt-double Hal Needham, and the making of their unlikely smash-hit SMOKEY & THE BANDIT. The movie tells the action-packed story of the making of SMOKEY, whereas tracing the vivid private journeys of Reynolds and Needham from obscurity to stardom and highlighting one of the crucial extraordinary relationships in Hollywood historical past. That includes new interviews with Reynolds, uncommon archive materials, together with footage from Reynolds’ private archive, in addition to candid interviews with the late Hal Needham, the documentary tells an exhilarating and transferring story about loyalty, friendship and inventive threat.
