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Small Time Crooks, 2000

Starring: Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant

Directed by: Woody Allen

Written by: Woody Allen

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 94 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Rating:6.5

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The mood of Small Time Crooks is clever, witty, and humorous. The plot centers around unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, and cons and scams. It is a comedy, independent, and crime movie. Stylistically, Small Time Crooks is talky. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Small Time Crooks is set in New York. It happens in the 1990s.

Summary of Small Time Crooks

Woody Allen returns to his slapstick days with this comic romp, which centers on a small-time hood, Ray Winkler, who just can't catch a break. It's as if Virgil Starkwell (Allen's hysterically incompetent criminal mastermind from TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN) has finally gotten out of prison and is still up to his old scheming. Against his wife Frenchy's (Tracey Ullman) better judgment, Ray puts together a ragtag group of misfits, including a scene-stealing Elaine May, and immerses them in a crazy plot to rob a bank. But everything gets upended when their front, a cookie store, takes off, thrusting the Winklers into the upper echelons of New York's high society.

SMALL TIME CROOKS looks like no other Allen film; gone are the black-and-white shades of Manhattan, replaced instead by the ridiculously loud shirts Ray wears and the perfectly garish furniture and artwork Frenchy accumulates. Even the Allen soundtrack, usually exclusively jazz, big band, and Dixieland standards, features "Tequila" by the Champs as an underlying theme. What stands out most of all, however, is the offbeat, charming relationship between Ray and Frenchy, two ne'er-do-wells who get to spend a little time at the top.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	19 May 2000
Runtime:	94 min

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Tracey Ullman

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Hugh Grant

as David

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Variety

Breezy, enjoyable romp gratifyingly zigzags in directions that aren't apparent at the outset and features some intriguingly personal subtext for longtime Woody watchers. Full Review

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by: Todd McCarthy

Film.com

This is vintage Allen, his powers intact after a string of increasingly cranky, creaky films in the last few years. Full Review

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by: Tom Keogh

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Tracey Ulman is a perfect foil for Woody's portrayl of a hapless, bottom-dwelling crook. When through a series of impossible but hilarious events they become wealthy, their relationship disintegrates. Also features wonderful performances by Jon... Read and rate it

25.November.2010
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by: bonkey3
bonkey3 rated this movie0/10

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