The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
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May 19, 2000 · 1 Video. 70 Photos. Comedy Crime. A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success. Director. Woody Allen. Writer. Woody Allen. Stars. Woody Allen. Tracey Ullman. Hugh Grant. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +4. Add to Watchlist. Added by 25.5K users. 213 User reviews.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Woody Allen
- 2000-05-19
Try it free. Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in this romantic comedy that follows the misadventures of an ex-con dishwasher and his manicurist wife. Their get-rich-quick scheme to rob a bank...
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Career criminal Ray and his cronies want to lease a closed pizzeria so they can dig a tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Ray's wife Frenchy covers what they are doingby selling cookies in the restaurant. The robbery scheme soon proves to be a miserable failure, but the cookie business is a hit. After they franchise the bus...
Box office
Small Time Crooks opened up on the same day as Dinosaur and Road Trip and was the highest-grossing film directed by Allen at the North American box office between 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanors and 2005's Match Point, with a gross of $17.2 million; the film became nicely profitable for North American distributor DreamWorks Pictures.However, the film was also one of the few later Allen films which did less well outside the U.S. and Canada, and its global gross was $29.9 million.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 66% based on reviews from 100 critics, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny movie, Crooks proves Allen still has the touch that made his name synonymous with off-beat comedy." On Metacritic the film has an average score of 69 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally positive reviews". Audiences su...
Accolades
Ullman was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance, and Elaine May won Best Supporting Actress at the National Society of Film Critics Awardsfor her performance.
Small Time Crooks at IMDbSmall Time Crooks at AllMovieSmall Time Crooks at Box Office MojoDetails. Woody Allen wrote, directed and stars in this romantic comedy that follows the misadventures of an ex-con dishwasher and his manicurist wife. Their get-rich-quick scheme to rob a bank leaves them rolling in dough... but not the kind they had in mind.
Small Time Crooks Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con man who is married to Frenchy (Tracy Ullman), a former stripper.
May 19, 2000 · Rent Small Time Crooks on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny...
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- Romance, Comedy
- PG
