The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 30
This is a brilliant and stylish remake with interesting plot twists.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 7
This is a brilliant and stylish remake with interesting plot twists.
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When a priceless Monet painting is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the police find themselves wondering which world-class art thief pulled the job. What they don't know is that the thief wasn't a professional, but an amateur. Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) was born poor but made his way through Oxford on a boxing scholarship. With his sharp sense for business and ruthless ambition, Crown has become a self-made billionaire; but despite his wealth and power, he still seeks new
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Cast
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Pierce Brosnan
Thomas Crown -
Rene Russo
Catherine Banning -
Denis Leary
Detective Michael McCan... -
Ben Gazzara
Andrew Wallace -
Frankie Faison
Detective Paretti -
Fritz Weaver
John Reynolds -
Charles Keating
Golchan -
Mark Margolis
Knutzhorn -
Faye Dunaway
The Psychiatrist -
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All Critics (108) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (30) | DVD (22)
It might be fun to see on an airplane or rent on video.
Production has been lavished with extravagant sets and locations that welcome the audience into a fantasy world of untold luxury.
Crown is a guilt-free pleasure, a way to waste a couple of hours happily at the theater without encountering computer-generated monsters or teenagers losing their virginity.
The Thomas Crown Affair plays as a very grown-up, cynical and slick quasi-thriller, with a couple of hot sex scenes that look as if they're the ones missing from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
Elaborate and inventive!
Hhandsome Pierce Brosnan and elegant Rene Russo look fabulous here, but they fail to ignite an exciting on-screen chemistry.
A fine remake for older teens and adults.
In 1999, was there a more suave man on the planet than Pierce Brosnan?
...professional Hollywood movie-making, which means it's at once very impressive and utterly dismissable.
For those who still have a shred of sophistication left, and an appreciation for mind games rather than mere shock-treatment, here's a summer movie for you.
The best thing about "The Thomas Crown Affair" is that it doesn't give a hang if the 14-year-olds show up.
In the game of love, sometimes even the most untrustworthy players can surprise us.
One of the best James Bond films in recent years.
The Thomas Crown Affair is a refreshingly straightforward entertainment film, made with great style.
an exercise in sexual chemistry and fashion
See this movie.
Enjoyable!
If you're gonna remake a classic then this is the way to do it.
This 'Crown,' a smarter and more exciting film than the original, is essentially a two-hour excuse to get this beautiful couple into one compromising position after another...
Russo has finally found a role that enables her to blend her popular brand of vulnerable machisma with a strong dose of natural feminine wiles.
A well constructed melodrama!
A stylish, witty and romantic romp!
Much better than this year's Entrapment, and a great time killer for the above 20 demographic.
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August 1, 2008:
Brosnan's Crown Affair Sequel Should Arrive in '09According to Pierce Brosnan, the long-discussed sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair should get rolling...
November 12, 2007:
Paul Verhoeven Directing Thomas Crown Affair Sequel?Two years after first being announced, the sequel to 1999's Pierce Brosnan-led remake of The Thomas...
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Another "Crown" for BrosnanPierce Brosnan took a detour into indie productions after hanging up his Bond tux and martini --...
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Foreign Titles
- Thomas Crown ist nicht zu fassen (DE)
- L'Affaire Thomas Crown (FR)


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The heist seems in both are superbly conceived and well filmed, with just the right amount of tension about the problems arising. Good stuff.