From award-winning director Phillip Noyce (Salt, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Dead Calm) comes the incredible true-crime story of Peggy Jo Tallas. Lily James (Yesterday, Baby Driver) plays this real life Texan Bonnie (without a Clyde) who takes to robbing banks while posing as a man. Peggy Jo (James) is a unique beautiful person, prone to be romantically lost in books and films. However she is not the sort of person who lets life and people get the better of her. When her latest beau turns out to be married to his bank co-worker, she takes matters into her own hands, robbing his very bank disguised as a man with a big beard and a back-to-front cowboy hat. But it’s just too easy!

Inspired by her love of stories such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and eager to support her struggling family financially, Peggy Jo starts holding up a string of banks as her now famous alter-ego “Cowboy Bob”. She becomes more and more daring, hotly pursued by astute FBI agent Bishop. But along the way she loses her heart to damaged soul Charlie. Like Peggy, Charlie also seeks escape and solace in the fantasy world of books and poetry. As Bishop draws nearer and her love-story with Charlie is threatened, Peggy chooses, like her heroes, not to give up, but to go down in a blaze of glory. Peggy Jo is all about wanting more than your life presents to you and celebrates with a wink and a nod, many of our favourite films from the 60s through to the 80s, in tone, fun, music, colour and pure escapist entertainment, with a whole load of heart.