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Bookmark this pageThief (1981)
Director: Michael Mann
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From Time Out Film Guide
A silently professional night-time jewel robbery, reduced to near-abstract essentials and paced by a Tangerine Dream score, sets the electric tone for Mann's fine follow-up to The Jericho Mile: a philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool. Caan's the thief, contradictorily building and risking a future mapped out as meticulously as any of his lucrative hi-tech jobs; testing his emotional and criminal independence to the limits; eventually recognising that he's either exercising or exorcising a death wish.Author: PT
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- I don't even know what to said...
- Posted on Jan 24 2012 10:50 I don't even know what to say, this made tnihgs so much easier!
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- E A Dobson said...
- Posted on May 22 2011 19:40 30 years down the line and Michael Mann`s thriller still packs a punch.He manages to make a film in that genre which could`ve been completely forgettable in someone else`s hands,instead it was in my thoughts for days,even weeks after.The whole cast is superb-no doubt a career best from James Belushi(his big screen debut)-and Caan`s at the very top of his game.I just hope one day soon they re release this film with a new print,my MGM dvd isn`t so bad but this 80`s classic deserves better!
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Cast & crew
Director: Michael Mann
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Ronnie Caan
Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Tom Signorelli full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 123 mins
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