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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
4,849 Views


anyway?

Then they close the gates

to keep everybody out...

but block one of them open while

they prepare to load conservatively...

a thousand pounds of paintings

and 800 pounds of men...

that we know about, in a...

What was the chopper model?

Sikorsky S-76.

Right. In a chopper

with a 600-pound useful load.

You figure you'll wrap this by morning,

do you, Lieutenant?

It's Detective. And I'm a little fuzzy

about who you are.

- I'm sorry. I'm Catherine Banning.

- Of?

Zurich underwriters requested...

Well, actually...

You're insurance.

There are a couple Swiss gentlemen who'd

rather not write a $100 million check.

So, I'm stuck with you on my back.

Come on, Lieutenant.

Who knows?

You might enjoy it.

Thousand bucks says

you can't do that again.

Tony, put another ball down there.

Tommy, it was a figure of speech.

Let's make it interesting,

shall we? Ten to one?

Fine. I'll take your money.

Let's go again.

Still ten to one.

That's $100,000

on a goddamn golf swing.

It's a beautiful Saturday morning,

John.

What the hell else

do we gotta do?

She does live in Europe

but she's actually from the Midwest.

- Born Catherine Olds.

- Who's Banning?

Some Englishman she married

for six months.

- So she's not law enforcement.

- Worse. Bail bonds and bounties.

Whoa, tough people.

Her father's an Ohio hardcase, Clarence

Milton Olds, called Bumper Olds.

Story goes he kept a chain

on his back bumper.

A guy ran on him once, he brought him

back on the end of the chain.

Guess you don't wanna cross

old Clarence.

Good morning.

How are you?

I said, how are you?

Jet-lagged. Thank you.

We thought we'd start with

the security tapes. What is that?

You don't wanna know.

All right. These are yesterday's tapes

from the Impressionist wing.

Why are they different

from the corridor cameras?

We're upgrading to thermal imagery.

So far, it's just the high value areas.

But it works in the dark.

Even senses body heat.

Got it. So that's the Monet

that morning.

- Right.

- Skip forward to the robbery.

- Time of the robbery.

- Whoa.

Zip.

Was the camera still working,

or what, did they cut the feed?

- That's why they cut the air.

- You know, that could be.

These things need

a ten-degree difference.

If the temperature of the ambient

gets within ten degrees of the bodies...

Then the camera can't tell

between people and walls.

How hot did it get in the museum?

Check the other cameras.

So why can you see people

in this room?

The ambient in that room

only went up to the mid-80s.

Wait a minute.

You're telling me

that for some reason...

the area around that

particular painting went above 90?

What?

I don't know. Something.

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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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