Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
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| Burt Reynolds | ... | Ernie Mullins | |
| Casey Siemaszko | ... | Mike Lafebb | |
| Sheila Kelley | ... | Carrie aka Fontaine | |
| Lorraine Toussaint | ... | Delphine the Hooker | |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Johnny Scot, Poker Player | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Shoes, Poker Player (as Harry Carey) | |
| Maury Chaykin | ... | Vincent Tucci, Attorney | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | District Attorney | |
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Richard Key Jones | ... | Lou, Bob's Tire & Body |
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Tom Lasswell | ... | Bud, Bob's Tire & Body |
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Walter Shane | ... | Bob's Tire & Body Manager |
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Frank A. Damiani | ... | Waiter |
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David Frishberg | ... | Nighclub Singer |
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John Baldwin | ... | Sam the Apostle |
| Eddie Driscoll | ... | Paul the Apostle | |
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Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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An amateur thief and a professional robber team up for an outrageous comic heist.Parents Guide:
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13 October 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$679,200, 13 October 1989, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,877,618Company Credits
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Ernie Mullins: Runs in the family, huh?
Mike Lafebb: Hey, you with some kind of organization?
Ernie Mullins: Yeah, uh, Northwest Homeowners Association.
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Music by Hampton H. Sewell
Words by Johnson Oatman Jr.
Published by Musical Ministries
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Mike Lafebb: Man, I never met anybody who did crime for a living. I mean I had a cousin once who held up a gas station on his bicycle, but he was nuts.Ernie Mullins: Runs in the family, huh?
Mike Lafebb: Hey, you with some kind of organization?
Ernie Mullins: Yeah, uh, Northwest Homeowners Association.
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Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Fabulous Baker Boys/Breaking In/Crimes and Misdemeanors/Look Who's Talking (1989) See more »Soundtracks
He Included MeMusic by Hampton H. Sewell
Words by Johnson Oatman Jr.
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Burt Reynolds broke out of his leading man pigeonhole to attempt, for once, a more believable role, playing a middle-aged, low-rent burglar who enlists the help of a dumb but loyal grease monkey and then proceeds to give him lessons in both larceny and life. There are a few heists along the way, but this is more a character study than a caper film, and it works in large part because of the rapport and timing between Reynolds and his blue collar sidekick Casey Siemaszko. Both characters are losers, and it might be argued that losers make more engaging heroes, perhaps because they're easier to identify with. In the spirit of earlier Bill Forsythe films it's a slim but disarming comedy, with an extra measure of depth in the canny screenplay by John Sayles, as always the working man's champion, who along the way makes some minor but interesting points about the haves and the have-nots.