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Small Time Crooks

Woody Allen comedy co-starring Tracey Ullman. An inept New York crook and his wife become millionaires when her home-made cookies prove a giant success.

Movie rating: 3 star rating.  - good.
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Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Elaine May, Hugh Grant
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2000
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate: PG
 
 
Britain's Tracey Ullman and Hugh Grant join Woody Allen for this old-style Allen comedy that could almost be about his character from Take the Money and Run 30 years on. Woody's a longtime crook who cons his ex-stripper wife (Tracey) out of her savings to invest in a demented scheme to tunnel into a bank from the fast-food joint next door. The plan is doomed from day one when Woody and his pals flood the cellar, but upstairs Tracey's cookies are selling like, well, hot cakes. A year later they've built a baking empire and they're billionaires. Tracey's hobnobbing with money-hungry art dealer Hugh, but is Woody happy? Nah, not a bit of it. While Tracey, who thinks that upwardly mobile refers to her phone, is playing Eliza to Hugh's Henry Higgins, Woody and her scatterbrained cousin Elaine May are hatching a plan to heist dowager Elaine Stritch's emeralds. Woody, wizened but still manic, Tracy, a lot curvier than in her TV comedy days and old smoothie Hugh are all very funny, but the film belongs to veteran comedienne May, who probably hasn't made many films because she steals them all from her co-stars. Like Woody, the plot could draw its pension (Edward G Robinson gave it the business years ago in Larceny Inc), but, like these stars, it still does a good turn.

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