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Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 February 1984 (USA)
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The Comedy that dreams the impossible scheme! [Video Australia]
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Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake...
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Pawnshop
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Burglary
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Gay Couple
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Caper
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1 nomination
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Not as bad as its reputation suggests, but with that cast and director...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Donald Sutherland | ... | Weslake | |
| Jack Warden | ... | Lou Garvey | |
| Sean Penn | ... | Don Dillard | |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Turtle | |
| Larry Riley | ... | Boardwalk | |
| Trinidad Silva | ... | Ramon | |
| Christine Baranski | ... | Maxine | |
| Irwin Corey | ... | Lazzarelli | |
| Edouard DeSoto | ... | Don Fernando Pablo Jesus de la Vaca | |
| Anna Maria Horsford | ... | Slam Dunk | |
| Mitchell Lichtenstein | ... | Artiste | |
| Charlayne Woodard | ... | Jasmine | |
| Tasia Valenza | ... | Maria Elena Mercedes | |
| Marjorie Eaton | ... | Mrs. O'Malley | |
| Ed Call | ... | Officer Darney (as Edward Call) |
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91 min
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Remake of I soliti ignoti (1958)
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We Got More Than We Need
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"Crackers" falls into that category of films that have failed quite inexplicably - helmed by a great director, starring a cast of assured veterans (Sutherland, Warden) and talented newcomers (Penn, Baranksi) and written by the screenwriter of one of the best films of the eighties ("Cutter's Way"). Then why is it that no one talks about the film anymore? Firstly, the film has been made far more successfully on two other occasions in the guise of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" and then recently "Welcome To Collinwood". Secondly, Malle must have been going through an eighties dance music phase when he made the film because it is effectively ruined by an utterly dated and abysmal soundtrack - with a proper film score it would have been a far better film. Lastly, Sutherland gives what is probably his most broad and embarrassingly unfunny performance in the lead, subsequently hindering any sympathy for his character. There are other qualms (what exactly is the purpose of Baranski's character, lets throw in a slut for some wacky comedy?) but it is nevertheless still quite watchable. Shawn, who would collaborate with Malle on the acclaimed films "My Dinner With Andre" and "Vanya on 42nd Street", is very funny as the forever-eating Turtle and Penn is amusing in a dumb hood role he would practically resume for "We're No Angels", another film with a great director, writer and cast that would be a critical and commercial failure. No film made by Malle could be truly bad, and this isn't, but it is neither as quirky or funny as it wants to be.