Safe Men is a 1998 American crime comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg (in his directorial debut), and starring Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn.

Veal Chop coerces Sam and Eddie into supposedly breaking into an older man's home to crack his safe for easy money.

Sam bumps into Hannah, serving orderves in the barber shop her dad Good Stuff Leo uses as a front for his fencing operation.

In August 1998, The New York Times called it a "low-energy comedy with sufficient signs of willingness to stray off the beaten track to indicate that somewhere down the line its writer and director, John Hamburg, will create something far better.

Club began its review with:[4] The vast majority of direct-to-video films are not very good, lacking not only star power and budget, but ideas and imagination.

Every once in a while, though, a movie is denied a proper theatrical release not because it's bad, but because it just isn't the sort of film for which a studio is willing to risk a multimillion-dollar advertising budget.

Club also called the film a "sort of Bottle Rocket Lite, sharing a deadpan, consistently sustained comic tone, as well as a palpable affection for its characters.

Almost everyone in Safe Men is pathetic on some level, but first-time writer-director John Hamburg grants even his least significant characters a humanity that gives the film a sort of warm, fuzzy glow.