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Small Time Crooks (2000)

★ 6.5 · 746 ratings on TMDB

They took a bite out of crime.

Small Time Crooks poster★ 6.5

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

DirectorWoody Allen
CastBrian Markinson, Elaine May, Hugh Grant, Jon Lovitz, Lawrence Howard Levy, Michael Rapaport
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Small Time Crooks keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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