Crackers (1984)

Directed by

Louis Malle

Genre

heist film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

15

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of down-on-their-luck small-time thieves in San Francisco plan to rob a neighborhood pawn shop owned by a greedy man. The bumbling crew tries to pull off the heist but their incompetence leads to complications.

comedycrimelightheartedslow-burnquirkyoffbeatwhimsicalunderdog

What happens

Crackers is a 1984 American comedy-crime film directed by Louis Malle. It was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. Written by Jeffrey Fiskin, the film is about a group of small-time out-of-luck thieves, led by the unemployed Weslake (Donald Sutherland), who attempt to rob the neighborhood pawn shop owned by the greedy Garvey (Jack Warden). It is a remake of the Italian film Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) directed by Mario Monicelli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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