Synopsis
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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Cast
- Steve McQueenThomas Crown
- Faye DunawayVicki Anderson
- Paul BurkeDet. Lt. Eddy Malone
- Jack WestonErwin Weaver
- Biff McGuireSandy
- Addison PowellAbe
- Astrid HeerenGwen
- Gordon PinsentJamie McDonald
- Yaphet KottoCarl
- Sidney ArmusArnie
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
the Norman Jewison film tells a crackerjack story, well-tooled, professionally crafted and fashioned with obvious meticulous care. McQueen is neatly cast as the likeable, but lonely heavy. Dunaway makes an excellent detective who gradually develops a conflict of interests regarding her prey. The only message in this film is: enjoy it. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
It is a flashy, undemanding technical achievement, enhanced by the marquee power of Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. - 70
The New York Times
An ordinary, not wonderful, but highly enjoyable movie. - 70
The New Yorker
What gives this trash a life, what makes it entertaining is clearly that the director, Norman Jewison, and some of those involved, knowing of course that they were working on a silly, shallow script used the chance to have a good time with it. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Possibly the most under-plotted, underwritten, over-photographed film of the year. Which is not to say it isn't great to look at. It is. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A very expensive caper picture that drowns in its own artiness, using multi-images, cinematic tricks, and other pretentious film gimmicks--all of which detract from the story. - 50
Time Out
Slick, silly romantic thriller, with Dunaway as an insurance investigator falling for McQueen, the property developer led to commit a bank robbery through boredom. Much obvious 'significance' (the pair playing chess; symbolic, see?), much glossy imagery (courtesy of Haskell Wexler) fashionably fragmented into interminable split-screen nonsense, and little of any real interest.
