First-time feature filmmaker Alan Taylor puts a benign face on urban crime. The Pink Pantherish opening theme sets the tone for three Jersey jerk-offs (William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo, Adam Trese) to break-and-enter into a bakery when their proposed target was the next-door jewelry store. (One of them is satisfied to stuff pastries into his mouth with both hands.) Later, they will huddle around the TV to study Richard Fleischer's Armored Car Robbery in preparation for a more ambitious caper to be pulled off with plastic painted handguns. The movie, never rising above the innocuous, is dedicated "with thanks, admiration, and apologies to Italo Calvino," but it owes a lot also to a less eminent Italian: the director and co-writer of Big Deal on Madonna Street, Mario Monicelli. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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