Thursday, June 26, 2008

Thieves Like Us (1974)

dir. Robert Altman
writ. Robert Altman, Joan Tewkesbury, Calder Willingham, Edward Anderson (novel)
feat. Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen

Here is your antidote to all the high octane, shoot-em-up heist films out there. Altman, in his mid-70s form, plays out the story of three thieves who bust out of prison in the mid-30s and go on a Mississippi bank robbing spree. They're not geniuses but they figure out what works and manage to keep the string going, hiding out and drinking too much between jobs. The plaintive way in which Altman follows the men - bored between heists, slowly burning through their money, hopeful to avoid hurting anyone, getting fired up as the day of the next robbery approaches - repaints the image of thieves, earning the title of the film. These are ordinary guys who happen to be thieves.

When Carradine, the youngest of the bunch, falls for Duvall as she tends to his wounds after a car crash, it is naturally disruptive, one of the boys now attached to a woman who wants a different life than the moll of a thief. Carradine attempts to keep an even keel and manage both lives, but as it goes, the law can't be far behind.

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