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The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair

6.8

The Thomas Crown Affair

PG·1968·102m

Summary

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

Crew

Director

Norman Jewison

Writer

Alan Trustman

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

June 3, 2023

7

This is a wonderfully understated, classy heist movie that demonstrates clearly the panache of Steve McQueen as an actor. In the title role, he is a millionaire who presents an outward image of a man who has everything, but privately is meticulously planning and executing a bank robbery that nets him over $2 million. When the insurers bring in their best investigator - the glamorous and sassy Faye Dunaway, she quickly susses out what's what and we have a cunning game of cat and mouse tinged with some unsentimental romance. The Michel Legrand score is superb; the dialogue taut, occasionally witty and Norman Jewison's direction is subtle and attractive leading to the scene at the end that you could never forget. Great stuff.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$4,300,000.00

Revenue:

$14,000,000.00

Keywords

plan
insurance salesman
businessman
in love with enemy
boredom
hold-up robbery
insurance fraud
heist
theft
millionaire