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Small Time Crooks
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One of Woody Allen's zanier latter-day films, the 2000 comedy Small Time Crooks follows a former criminal named Ray (Allen) and his wife, Frenchy (Tracey Ullman), poor but happy in their New York City apartment. Ray hatches an elaborate scheme: Rob a bank by buying the building next door and tunneling under it. To explain their presence, Ray has Frenchy set up a cookie shop as a front. Two days later, the tunneling is getting nowhere, but the cookie shop is a huge success!While the plot shares some similarities with S. J. Perelman's play The Night Before Christmas (itself adapted to the screen as the 1942 comedy Larceny, Inc. with Edward G. Robinson), in true Woody Allen style this film is less about the heist itself and more about how Ray and Frenchy's relationship progresses in the face of their newfound wealth and status. | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began: Ray and Frenchy end up from where they started from, but with a new appreciation for each other. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Caper: The final quarter of the film is a jewel heist. They end up stealing the fakes they intended to replace the real one with. Frenchy "steals" a priceless royal jewelry that technically isn't stealing because she bought it; she just took it back from the gigolo she gave it to. | |
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Haute Cuisine Is Weird | |
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Haute Cuisine Is Weird: Ray wants no part of food "that leaves a slime trail" and just wants a cheeseburger. | |
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Nouveau Riche: Ray and Frenchy are the very definition! Even the caterer seems offended. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Ray thinks he's a genius, and notes everyone in prison called him "The Brain". His former cellmates insist it was an Ironic Nickname. | |
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Genius Ditz: May is astonishly dumb, a master of Comically Missing the Point, but gives some Brutal Honesty with her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Ray near the end. | |
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Fake–Real Turn | |
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Fake–Real Turn: The cookie shop is set up as a false front from which Ray and his gang can tunnel into the bank next door, but it actually draws successful business, while the bank robbery fails miserably. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: May gives Ray a thorough dressing down late in the film. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Denny, Benny, Tommy, and Ken all get jobs with the cookie company after the Fake–Real Turn, but disappear after a couple of scenes, and it isn't shown what happens to them after the company goes bankrupt. | |
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The Convenient Store Next Door | |
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The Convenient Store Next Door: Ray and Frenchy use a cookie store front while they try to tunnel across the street to the bank. They fail to tunnel their way into the bank, but the cookies are so popular, it turns them into instant millionaires. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Deconstructed and averted, as French's cookie selling becomes the big score, not the bank heist. | |
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Failure Hero | |
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Failure Hero: Ray. Frenchy, too, but she manages to save the day with one of the skills she learned from Ray. Safe cracking. | |
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Stupid Crooks | |
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Stupid Crooks: And small time, too. It's one of the rare movies in which Allen plays a complete idiot. | |
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Authority in Name Only | |
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Authority in Name Only: Tommy becomes the company's chairman of the board, but doesn't do anything more important than hiring a plumber to fix the office building's toilets. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Several people comment on Frenchy's cookies before she sets up the shop. Ray's teaching Frenchy in how to crack safes saves the day, too. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: Set in New York City, as usual for Allen. | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: May is a major source of humor in the film. | |
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Insurance Fraud | |
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Insurance Fraud: One of Ray's friends sent two of his children to college with money from that kind of fraud and was planning another insurance fraud when he decided to set this plan aside to help Ray with a bank robbery. | |
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Let Off by the Detective | |
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Let Off by the Detective: Ken, a cop who buys cookies from the store, figures out the gang's robbery scheme and catches them in the act of tunneling into the wrong building. He lets them go once they promise to stick to the cookie business and offer him a cut of it. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: When Ray and May try to steal a socialite's necklace, they mix up the real one and the copy they plan to replace it with. Ray says that they can't take both necklaces because they've been seen acting suspiciously in close vicinity to the safe and will be the prime suspects if the necklace just disappeared. Denny, a man who thinks Ray is a genius, is made head of advertising for the cookie company and focuses on putting ads in his favorite pornographic magazines, claiming that it will make readers associate the lust they feel with the cookies. Judging by how successful the company becomes, this idea seems to be working. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Benny, a career arsonist, becomes the fire safety inspector for Sunset Cookies. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: May. | |
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