A guilty pleasure.
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:58
Rotten:28
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: This is a brilliant and stylish remake with interesting plot twists.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of... Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of challenges. When an alarm sounds at a a world class museum and someone walks out with a priceless Monet, Crown is the last person the New York police suspect. Who would steal something he could easily afford to buy and why would he? But one person suspects him: Catherine Banning (Renne Ruso), the brilliant female investigator hired to retrieve the painting no matter what it takes. Catherine loves the chase as much as he does and she's on to his game. Crown has found his challenge. THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR is based on the 1968 movie with the same title staring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway. [More]
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Screenwriter: Leslie Dixon, Kurt Wimmer
Producer: Pierce Brosnan, Beau St. Clair
Composer: Bill Conti
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Release:
Apr 7, 2009
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- NTSC
- Keep Case
- Letterbox - 2.35
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- (unspecified) - English
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary: John McTiernan - Director
Trailers:
- 1. THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
- 2. THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999)
Additional Products:
- Booklet - Behind-The-Scenes
Reviews for Thomas Crown Affair, The
The Thomas Crown Affair is the movie that the people behind the heavy-handed Entrapment probably thought they were making.
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.
Not quite as pleasurable, or guilt-inducing, as the first telling of the same story.
Russo's decade of sidekick-cupcake roles has never before given her the opportunity to create the kind of believable, engaging genre character she comes up with here.
Glossy, uninvolving, full of irrelevant but handsome scenes in sailboats and gliders, requiring such suspension of disbelief that I expected Tinker Bell to fly past.
Those expecting a caper flick will be bored to tears by the film's sluggish pace, and will be chilled by the icy chemistry between the stars.
Whenever the cutesy story or the litany of billionaire toys and pads threaten to knock you out, Russo smiles, disrobes, and laughs like a mule.
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.
Latest News for Thomas Crown Affair, The
August 01, 2008:
Brosnan's Crown Affair Sequel Should Arrive in '09 ![]()
According to Pierce Brosnan, the long-discussed sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair should get rolling next year, with Paul Verhoeven behind the cameras -- and Angelina Jolie's... More...
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 Crown Affair is still in development -- but if you've been impatient to see... More...
January 26, 2007:
Another "Crown" for Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan took a detour into indie productions after hanging up his Bond tux and martini -- most recently in "The Matador" and "Seraphim Falls" -- but... More...
November 15, 2006:
MGM Promises More Panther, Bond, Crown, Rocky & Hobbit
It looks like the cash-strapped MGM is about to seriously scale back on its productions, but they still have five strapping franchises on which they'll bet the ranch... More...
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