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Crackers (1984) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

Actors:
Donald Sutherland ..... Weslake
Jack Warden ..... Lou Garvey
Sean Penn ..... Don Dillard
Wallace Shawn ..... Turtle
Larry Riley ..... Boardwalk
Trinidad Silva ..... Ramon
Christine Baranski ..... Maxine
Irwin Corey ..... Lazzarelli
Edouard DeSoto ..... Don Fernando Pablo Jesus de la Vaca
Anna Maria Horsford ..... Slam Dunk
Mitchell Lichtenstein ..... Artiste
Charlayne Woodard ..... Jasmine
Tasia Valenza ..... Maria Elena Mercedes
Marjorie Eaton ..... Mrs. O'Malley
Ed Call ..... Officer Darney (as Edward Call)

Synopsis:

A remake of Pigeon by Mario Monicelli, but set on the streets of San Francisco in a contemporary America instead of Italy in the '50s, this comedy about a conspiratorial heist of a greedy pawnbroker has excellent acting and good light fun but not much in the way of character motivation. Weslake (Donald Sutherland) is unemployed and has reason to frequent the pawnshop of his money-hungry friend Garvey (Jack Warden). People come and go around the shop (almost the only setting for the action): an aspiring musician of sorts (Sean Penn), the eccentric meter-maid Maxine (Christine Baranski), a safe-cracker (Irwin Corey), and others. Then one day Weslake gets the idea to break into Garvey's safe and make off with a few valuables just for the fun of it. Everyone agrees, and the plot goes on unhindered by motivation or ethics.

Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.

Crime comedy. A group of inhabitants of a San Francisco tenement block join forces to break into the safe of a local pawnshop owned by a ruthless profiteer.

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