Small Time Crooks
- Woody Allen: Ray
- Carolyn Saxon: Candy
- Tracey Ullman: Frenchy Winkler
- Michael Rapaport: Denny
- Tony Darrow: Tommy
- Sam Josepher: Real Estate Agents
- Jon Lovitz: Benny
- Hugh Grant: David
- Elaine May: May
Small Time Crooks is a comedy film directed by Woody Allen from 2000.
Action
The couple Ray and Frenchy Winkler and their accomplices Denny and Benny want to rob a bank by digging a tunnel to the vault. They disguise the company in that Frenchy two houses opened a Cookie Bakery, is driven by their basement from the tunnel. During the robbery fails grotesquely, thriving business with the cookies in an unexpected degree and becomes a bubbling source of money. After building a successful Cookie Group is Frenchy victims of fraudulent accountants and goes into bankruptcy. Remember Wove is the act between Frenchy and David, a versatile educated and handsome upstart who is hired by Frenchy to bring the couple Winkler culturally to the levels of their intermediate social standing. Looking for fortune trying to establish a relationship with Frenchy, but he breaks his projects abruptly as it is known their insolvency. Finally, the Winkler'sche altitude flight is completed and Ray and Frenchy have landed together on the floor of the facts. Ray, the climb had anyway displeased found better so than from his wife. The plot is reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Fisherman and his wife.
Reviews
- Lou Lumenick wrote in the New York Post that the comedy had disappointed him.
- Edward Guthmann wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the comedy begin with numerous gags, but then unexpectedly transform into a social satire. He praised the play by Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Jon Lovitz, and Michael Rapaport.
- KulturSPIEGEL 12/2000: " Once more Woody Allen that you can experience all kinds in New York: A rags wants to rob a bank, his wife sold to camouflage next door homemade cookies. Unfortunately, Allen's enough criminal energy only for platitudes: Money does not buy happiness; Taste can not be bought. Uneven mixture of gentleness age and feeble self- citations. "
Awards
- Tracey Ullman was nominated in 2001 for a Golden Globe and an American Comedy Award.
- Elaine May won the 2001 National Society of Film Critics Award and was nominated Film Critics Society Award for online.
Comments
The production of the comedy cost an estimated 18 million U.S. dollars. It was filmed in New York City.