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Small Time Crooks is an
American comedy film, released in
2000, starring
Woody Allen and
Tracey Ullman. Allen also
wrote and
directed the film.
Characters
The main characters include:
Plot
Ray and his friends want to lease an old restaurant so they can tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Frenchy covers what they're doing by selling cookies from the restaurant. The bank robbery scheme is a miserable failure, but after they franchise the business, selling cookies makes them millionaires.
In the film's second act, Frenchy throws a big party and overhears people making fun of their decorating taste and lack of culture. She asks a man named David (
Hugh Grant) to train her and Ray so they can fit in with the
American upper class. Ray hates every minute of it, but Frenchy likes their new culture.
What Ray and Frenchy don't know is that David is really just using Frenchy to get money for art projects he wants to do. Ray finally gets fed up and leaves Frenchy. David and Frenchy go to Europe for more cultural enlightenment and while there, she gets a call and finds out she's been defrauded by her accountants. She's lost everything including her cookie company, home, and possessions. David immediately dumps her.
Meanwhile, Ray has gone back to being a crook and tries to steal a valuable necklace at a party. He has had a duplicate made and through a series of circumstances gets the duplicate and real one mixed up. At the party he finds out that Frenchy is broke so he leaves and goes to see her. He consoles her by saying he stole the valuable necklace and shows it to her. Her new cultural enlightenment enabled her to tell the necklace was a fake. Ray had gotten the wrong one. But, she produced a cigarette case that she'd given to David as a gift and stole back from him when he dumped her. It once belonged to the Duke of Windsor. They reconcile and decide to sell it and go together to
Florida.
Critical reception
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes reported that the film received 66% positive reviews, based on 96 reviews.
Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 69 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.
Ullman was nominated for a
Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for her performance and Elaine May won Best Supporting Actress at the
National Society of Film Critics Awards for her performance.
Small Time Crooks was the highest grossing film directed by Allen at the North American box office between 1989's
Crimes and Misdemeanors and 2005's
Match Point with a gross of $17.2 million. However it was also one of the few later Allen films which did less well outside the U.S. and Canada, and its global gross was $29.9 million.
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