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Riding Bean

Riding Bean (45 min.) $34.95 This a great little action adventure flick, set in modern Chicago.

The story centers around Bean Bandit, a driver for hire who has worked on both sides of the law. The show opens on a bank robbery. Two bank robbers (one a child) pull a heist and escape with Bean Bandit who they hired as their get away driver. During the course of the escape the younger thief (a young girl) removes her mask and the upper part of her coveralls, revealing a frilly dress; she then dons a wig and looks out the window of the car just in time for a warehouse security camera to take her picture. That done, she puts away the wig and re-zips her coveralls and puts on a hat. When they get to the thieves own car they discover that the thieves only managed to steal barely enough to cover Bean's $40,000 driving fee. The thieves are upset but Bean says he is taking the amount they agreed upon, its their fault if they didn't steal enough for themselves to have some.

The next day a man claiming to be a security guard for the Grimwood family (local bigwigs) hired Bean to deliver young Chelsea Grimwood, who he says he just rescued from some kidnappers, to the Grimwood estate. The watcher will notice Chelsea looks just like the young thief from yesterday when she had the wig on. Suddenly a group of people open fire on Bean's office with automatic weapons from a building across the street. The security guard is apparently killed but everyone else survives. Bean and his partner Rally take Chelsea to the Grimwood estate only to be informed that Mr. Grimwood had, that morning, taken a large ransom to some kidnappers to get his daughter back only to be taken himself. Now the Grimwood guards think Bean is with the kidnappers and he has to make a hasty retreat. The police show up with a picture from the warehouse security camera, apparently implicating Bean in the kidnapping. Bean has been framed! You can bet he won't take this lying down. Can Bean catch the kidnappers, get the ransom money, evade the police and clear his name? Buy the tape and find out.