Cool!

The close friends Abdel, Mohammed, Hamid, Jacky and Jeffrey are petty criminals. Abdel still looks up to a group of older kids, who are involved in more serious crime. He becomes involved with the bank clerk Mabel. She is the beautiful girlfriend of Prof, the leader of the criminals. Then Prof suggests organising a robbery together… Theo van Gogh made the action film Cool! with hip-hop musical accompaniment, together with pupils/inmates at the Glenn Mills School, a reform school for kids who have run amuck. The young cast is augmented with well-known actors such as Johnny de Mol and Katja Schuurman. Note a small yet striking bit-part for Dutch Minister of Finance Gerrit Zalm as the bank manager.