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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 19, 2003
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nick Nolte & Tchéky Karyo | |
Performer: | Nutsa Kukhianidze & Emir Kusturica | |
Featured: | Ralph Fiennes | |
Directed by | Neil Jordan | |
Screenwriting by | Neil Jordan | |
Composition by | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Produced by | Seaton McLean, Stephen Woolley, John Wells & Tracey Seaward | |
Director of Photography: | Chris Menges | |
Executive Production by | Thierry de Navacelle, Kristin Harms & Neil Jordan |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Nolte gives] one of those performances that flows unhindered from an actor's deepest instincts...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Ao contrário do impecável anti-herói do original, Nick Nolte confere vulnerabilidade ao protagonista e, no processo, leva esta refilmagem a superar a produção de 1955.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: A- --
Nolte's hard lived, leather-lined face looks like a Muncie road map, and fits robber Bob to each crease.
Kansas City Kansan
The Good Thief is worth seeing, if only for Nolte's turn as the loveable de-toxing rogue.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2/4 --
When it comes to movies about one last, high-stakes score, Nolte in The Good Thief pales next to Gene Hackman's low-keyed brilliance in Heist.
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Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
While Jordan's repeated freeze-frames try a little too hard for nonchalance, the overall cocktail of Gallic insouciance and American film noir grit delivers such relaxant properties you forgive a few foibles.
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Time Out
...THE GOOD THIEF is exuberant, sexy, and ultimately life-affirming drama...
Total Film
Product Description:
Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, MICHAEL COLLINS) and veteran actor Nick Nolte combine their talents for this breezy heist picture. Bob (Nolte) is a retired master thief and gambler living as an expatriot in France. His past robberies are the stuff of underworld legend, but he's given it all up, and fallen into a twilight life of heroin addiction and seedy gambling dens. Then a chance encounter with an attractive young runaway (Nutsa Kukhianidze) inspires him to clean up his act and take one last big job; an elaborate modern art heist at a swanky Riviera casino. Standing in his way is a cagey police inspector (Tchéky Karyo) who is determined to bring him down, even though the two are longtime friends.
The twisty caper plotting compliments a fun cast (including Emir Kusturica and Gérard Darmon as two of Bob's brothers in crime), clever dialogue, stylish direction, and pretty Riviera scenery. Loosely modeled on Jean Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR, this is something of a pet project for Jordan and it's obvious he's invested himself into every detail of the production. The result is both elegant and warmly quirky. As for Nolte, he seems to be having a terrific time; the charming old rascal role fits him perfectly, and Kukhianidze proves his match with an aplomb beyond her years. Ralph Fiennes has a small role as a disreputable art dealer.
The twisty caper plotting compliments a fun cast (including Emir Kusturica and Gérard Darmon as two of Bob's brothers in crime), clever dialogue, stylish direction, and pretty Riviera scenery. Loosely modeled on Jean Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR, this is something of a pet project for Jordan and it's obvious he's invested himself into every detail of the production. The result is both elegant and warmly quirky. As for Nolte, he seems to be having a terrific time; the charming old rascal role fits him perfectly, and Kukhianidze proves his match with an aplomb beyond her years. Ralph Fiennes has a small role as a disreputable art dealer.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 124,400
- UPC: 024543085409
- Shipping Weight: 0.49/lbs (approx)
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