MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Louis Malle
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Rating:

A remake of Pigeon by Mario_Monicelli, but set on the streets of San Francisco in a contemporary America instead of Italy in the '50s, this comedy about a conspiratorial heist of a greedy pawnbroker has excellent acting and good light fun but not much in the way of character motivation. Weslake (Donald_Sutherland) is unemployed and has reason to frequent the pawnshop of his money-hungry friend Garvey (Jack_Warden). People come and go around the shop (almost the only setting for the action): an aspiring musician of sorts (Sean_Penn), the eccentric meter-maid Maxine (Christine_Baranski), a safe-cracker (Irwin_Corey), and others. Then one day Weslake gets the idea to break into Garvey's safe and make off with a few valuables just for the fun of it. Everyone agrees, and the plot goes on unhindered by motivation or ethics. Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi


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