Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 2, 2007 21:41:33 GMT
Small Time Crooks Woody Allen 2000 USA A bumbling thief hitches a plan to rob a bank by setting up a cookie store and tunelling through; the plan fails, but the cookies take off. Allen's writing is unusually verbose, here, too interested in explaining jokes than telling them: the most heinous example is the scene in which one character churns out word after word beginning with A, a joke undercut by another character making reference to a previous scene in which she confessed to reading the dictionary. Amid all the broad humour, there are subtle jabs at the idea of high culture and art appreciation; mildly funny, at times convincing, undercut by moralism.
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