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Synopsis: Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can't get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.
Director(s): John McTiernan
Production: MGM/UA
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
R
Year:
1999
113 min
Website
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- What do you mean?

The Impressionist Gallery,

closed for cleaning.

Cleaning?

Doing it right now.

Ed, want to lend me

a hand here for a minute?

Certainly.

Excuse me.

What do you think you're doing?

What?

Upstairs sent us down

to clean this exhibit.

They've got some VIPs

coming through.

I didn't hear about it.

I oversee this section.

Call upstairs if you like.

No, you're right.

They've been having people

down here all week.

Stop him! Watch it now!

Look out, Mr. Crown.

One at a time. Quickly.

Keep moving in a calm manner, please.

No need to panic. Thank you.

Hold it right there.

Freeze!

Keep your hands up!

Sixty-Eighth and Lexington.

- Good evening, sir.

- Hey, Paul.

Wanna put this in the study?

- I set out a bottle of wine.

- Thank you.

I may have won a cruise.

Mikey.

- They find the chopper?

- Abandoned in Queens.

- We know where it was stolen?

- Checking. Maybe a pad in the Hamptons.

Mr. Lenox.

Mr. Lenox is the director

of the museum.

This is Detective Michael McCann.

Sorry to be here, sir.

- Who are the actors?

- Four, all foreign.

Probably Eastern European.

No print records.

Illegals. Check with Interpol.

Russian government might help.

In the works. Point of entry was

a hollow statue delivered this morning.

They brought it in

through their own security.

Next you're gonna tell me

it was a horse.

- A Trojan horse?

- Bingo.

- Somebody's got a sense of humor.

- We got three digits of the truck plate.

- This place been hit before?

- They just lost their cherry.

I gather it was just

the one painting?

But it's such an important one.

It's a seminal work, a historical

watershed. It's truly irreplaceable.

I love this neighborhood. Some of

these broads are wearing my salary.

So the skylight was rigged to blow?

Yeah. And there were cargo nets

spread out ready to use.

And they were wearing rappelling

harnesses underneath their clothes.

Let's just track this thing through.

So, they kill the air...

make the place uncomfortable,

drive out the tourists, right?

Then they lower these gates

so nobody can get in to disturb them.

Then they lower the paintings

into the cargo nets.

Pull the paintings,

ditch the frames.

Figure they're gonna fly out of here

like a road company of Peter Pan.

Some of the crew make it,

some of them don't.

Basically, amateur night, right?

What's that?

It was wedged under the gate.

And?

Not exactly Samsonite.

Titanium. The engineer said

that it'd have to absorb...

15 to 20 tons to stop this gate.

Seems there may be

a couple of holes in your theory.

They shut off the air

to drive out the tourists...

then they escort them out

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Leslie Dixon

Leslie Dixon is an American screenwriter and film producer. She began her career as an original screenwriter, writing films such as 1987's Outrageous Fortune and Overboard. She then moved into adaptations and re-writes, developing the screenplays for: Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair, Pay It Forward, and Hairspray. She has also produced a variety of films, and the television series Limitless. more…

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