Thief
Rocket used car dealership and the Green Mill cocktail loungeAfter having spent many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of life, including a nice home, a wife, and kids.
29 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 July 1940, Blythe, California, USA
6 September 1936, Illinois, USA
30 April 1933, Abbott, Texas, USA
21 February 1953, Evanston, Illinois, USA
8 November 1940
13 December 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
April 02, 2014
Ground zero for Michael Mann--his origin story...
February 06, 2014
[Michael] Mann has a talent for making cops into Cops, crooks into Crooks, and heroes into Heroes, for telling stories where stark types of the kind found in noir or crime fiction are transformed into legends.
October 23, 2004
It's one of those films where you feel the authority right away: This movie knows its characters, knows its story, and knows exactly how it wants to tell us about them.
January 08, 2014
It's almost as if Mann was shot out of the womb fully formed as a visual artist, because the slick, neon-lit widescreen images of 1981′s Thief echo his later films.
June 03, 2015
Thief wears its genre as a badge of honour from the very first scene.
January 26, 2006
A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool.
April 18, 2014
Caan delivers what might be the best performance of his career.
August 30, 2004
Mr. Mann may well become a very good theatrical film maker but, among other things, he's going to have to learn how to edit himself, to resist the temptation to allow dialogue that is colorful to turn, all of a sudden, into deep, abiding purple.
February 12, 2014
James Caan gives a standout performance, investing in Frank a sense of determination that runs contrary to the fatalistic drive of the narrative.
April 19, 2010
neo-Melvillian existentialism
March 26, 2009
A slick Chicago crime-drama with a well-developed sense of pathos running throughout.
January 29, 2014
An ancient time... when master criminals were manly men with giant tools.
