Small Time Crooks is an American comedy film, released in 2000, starring Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman and Hugh Grant. Allen also wrote and directed the film.
The main characters include:
Ray and his friends want to lease an old restaurant so they can tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Frenchy covers what they are doing by selling cookies from the restaurant. The bank robbery scheme is a miserable failure, but after they fr...
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Small Time Crooks is an American comedy film, released in 2000, starring Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman and Hugh Grant. Allen also wrote and directed the film.
The main characters include:
Ray and his friends want to lease an old restaurant so they can tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Frenchy covers what they are doing by selling cookies from the restaurant. The bank robbery scheme is a miserable failure, but after they franchise the business, selling cookies makes them millionaires.
In the film's second act, Frenchy throws a big party and overhears people making fun of their decorating taste and lack of culture. She asks a man named David (Hugh Grant) to train her and Ray so they can fit in with the American upper class. Ray hates every minute of it, but Frenchy likes their new culture.
What Ray and Frenchy don't know is that David is really just using Frenchy to get money for art projects he wants to do. Ray finally gets fed up and leaves Frenchy. David and...
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