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Small Time Crooks is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Woody Allen released in USA on 19 may 2000 with Woody Allen
Small Time Crooks (2000)
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Add to a movie listSmall Time Crooks is a 2000 American crime-comedy film directed, written, and starring Woody Allen, along with actresses Elaine May and Tracey Ullman as well as actor Hugh Grant. Ullman received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and May won the Best Supporting Actress citation at the National Society of Film Critics Awards.
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Career criminal Ray (Woody Allen) and his cronies want to lease an old restaurant so they can tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Ray's wife Frenchy (Tracey Ullman) covers what they are doing by selling cookies from the restaurant. The bank robbery scheme is a miserable failure, but after they franchise the business, selling cookies makes them millionaires.Actors
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