"They took a bite out of crime."

2000

1h 34m

6.4(711 votes)

Comedy

Crime

Overview

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

55 members

Directing

Woody Allen

Ray

Acting

Tracey Ullman

Frenchy

Acting

Michael Rapaport

Denny

Acting

Tony Darrow

Tommy

Acting

Jon Lovitz

Benny

Acting

Hugh Grant

David

Directing

Elaine May

May

Acting

Sam Josepher

Real Estate Agent

No Image

Production

Lawrence Howard Levy

Dynamite Dealer

No Image

Acting

Brian Markinson

Cop

Acting

Steve Kroft

Himself

Acting

Elaine Stritch

Chi Chi Potter

Acting

Carolyn Saxon

Candy Salesperson

Production

Bill Gerber

Cookie Store Customer

Acting

Diane Bradley

Cookie Store Customer

No Image

Acting

Crystal Field

Cookie Store Customer

Acting

Cindy Carver

Cookie Store Customer

No Image

Acting

Laurine Towler

Cookie Store Customer

Acting

Olivia Hayman

Cookie Store Customer

No Image

Acting

Fanda Nikic

Cookie Store Customer

No Image

Acting

Ray Garvey

Cookie Store Customer

Acting

Dana Tyler

TV News Reporter

Acting

Larry Pine

Charles Bailey

Acting

Brian McConnachie

Paul Milton

Production

Riccardo Bertoni

Winklers' Butler

No Image

Acting

Isaac Mizrahi

Winklers' Chef

Acting

Kristine Nielsen

Emily Bailey

Acting

Julie Lund

Linda Rhinelander

No Image

Acting

Teri Black

Winkler Party Guest

No Image

Acting

John Doumanian

Winkler Party Guest

Acting

Phyllis Burdoe

Winkler Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Maurice Sonnenberg

Garth Steinway

Acting

Richard Mawe

Anthony Gwynne

Acting

Karla Wolfangle

Modern Dance Performer

No Image

Acting

Rob Besserer

Modern Dance Performer

No Image

Acting

Frank Wood

Oliver

Acting

Ruth Laredo

Concert Pianist

Acting

Julie Halston

Concert Party Guest

Crew

Anthony Sinopoli

Frenchy's Chauffeur

No Image

Acting

Jesse Levy

Church Cellist

No Image

Acting

Josephine Calabrese

Churchgoer

No Image

Acting

Cindy Wilks

Churchgoer

No Image

Acting

Trevor Moran

Churchgoer

No Image

Acting

Peter McRobbie

Frenchy's Lawyer

Acting

Douglas McGrath

Frenchy's Lawyer

Acting

Howard Erskine

Langston Potter

Acting

Christine Pipgras

Potter Party Guest

No Image

Writing

Nick Garfinkle

Potter Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Kenneth Edelson

Potter Party Guest

Acting

Ira Wheeler

Potter Party Guest

Acting

William Hill

Potter Party Guest

Acting

Ramsey Faragallah

Potters' Waiter

Acting

Scotty Bloch

Edgar's Wife

No Image

Acting

George Grizzard

George Blint

Acting

Marvin Chatinover

Dr. Henske

No Image

Similar Movies

6.0

2006

Bandidas

When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.

Movie

5.3

2002

No Good Deed

While doing a friend a favour and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. The screenplay by Christopher Cannan and Steve Barancik is based on the short story "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.

Movie

5.7

1993

The Real McCoy

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

Movie

7.8

2007

Ratatouille

Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart's delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he winds up in the sewer beneath one of Paris' finest restaurants, the rodent gourmet finds himself ideally placed to realize his dream.

Movie

6.5

2000

The Whole Nine Yards

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

Movie

5.0

1976

4 Billion in 4 Minutes

Obscure, action-packed euro-crime yarn about an imprisoned genius who organizes a bank robbery of 4 billion Lire from behind bars. It's up to superhunk Antonio Sabato to save the day, foil the baddies and bed the chick. There are great car chases and wrecks, and an occasionally enjoyable synth score.

Movie

4.6

2008

Tortilla Heaven

Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.

Movie

6.5

2008

The Ramen Girl

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Movie

5.8

2006

Caffeine

A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures. The food is not that good, but you can be yourselves and show yourselves for what you are: maniacs, perverts, gays, cheaters, violent old women, cross-dressers, whining singers, broken hearts... Come in, there is room!

Movie

6.0

1990

My New Partner II

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.

Movie

2.0

1970

I Love My Wife

Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.

Movie

5.8

1986

Wisdom

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.

Movie

6.1

2002

Stark Raving Mad

A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Movie

6.3

1990

The Hot Spot

Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.

Movie

4.7

2008

Stiletto

The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count

Movie

5.8

2003

Fat Pizza

Fat Pizza the Film is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.

Movie

3.8

2006

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.

Movie

4.8

2009

Still Waiting...

After Shenaniganz loses all its hottest waitresses to new competitor Ta-Ta's Wing Shack -- where the scantily clad wait staff earns bigger tips -- the Shenaniganz staff aims to give Ta-Ta's its just desserts.

Movie

7.9

1985

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Movie

6.8

2007

Death Sentence

Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.6

2001

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

Movie

6.8

1999

Sweet and Lowdown

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Movie

6.7

1995

Mighty Aphrodite

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.

Movie

6.6

1999

Topsy-Turvy

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Movie

5.6

2001

Sounds from a Town I Love

A montage of short scenes of New Yorkers talking on their cellphones, evoking snippets of conversation overheard in passing on the streets of Manhattan. Intended as a celebration of the people of New York City after the events of September 11, 2001.

Movie

5.1

1967

An Italian in America

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.

Movie

7.1

2017

Kapitalistis

“Santa Claus is a capitalist. He brings toys to children of the wealthy and sweaters to those of the poor”. Nikos, aged five.

Movie

7.8

1956

¡Aquí hay petróleo!

In a Spanish town that has been dying of thirst for years, some Americans who claim to be experts in oil prospecting say that there is oil. Considering the evidence of the treasure that encloses his subsoil, the owner will asks the shelter of one of the rich man of the town so that he decides.

Movie

6.6

2009

Trial on the Street

Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...

Movie

7.0

2004

The Privileged Planet

This 60-minute video documentary explores the conditions on Earth that allow for intelligent life and also make it a strangely well suited place for viewing and analyzing the universe.

Movie

7.1

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.

Movie

5.9

1977

Last Cannibal World

An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.

Movie

7.4

1989

Crimes and Misdemeanors

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Movie

6.0

1998

Celebrity

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.

Movie

6.4

1988

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.

Movie

6.4

1984

The Element of Crime

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.

Movie

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

6.3

1995

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.

Movie

6.9

2012

Two Rabbits

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

Movie

6.2

2020

Teddy

In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.

Movie

7.3

1993

Manhattan Murder Mystery

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Movie