Thieves Like Us
by Robert Altman
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Actor: Bert Remsen, John Schuck, Keith Carradine, Louise Fletcher, Shelley DuvallDirector: Robert Altman
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product features:
- Classic romantic melodrama about three convicted killers, Bowie (Carradine), Chicamaw (Schuck), and T-Dub (Remsen), who escape prison in 1937 rural Mississippi. Bowie, the youngest of the fugitives, meets and falls for an ingenuous farmgirl, Keechie (Duvall). The gang quickly turns to the only thing they know, bank robbery. The press closely follows the desperados notorious exploits, which include
DVD Reviews of Thieves Like Us
DVD Review: Good movie but not great.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is interesting in that Altman directed it. It is okay but not more.DVD Review: A disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
Altman has moments. Early in his career, these moments came often: "M*A*S*H" and "The Long Goodbye," "Nashville" and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller." But he also had disasters and disappointments. This lackluster, tedious picture belongs in the latter folder. There is an utter lack of narrative momentum, Carradine and Duvall are a real bore, and the use of radio bits fails to add much. No one needs to see this movie.DVD Review: realistic
Summary: 5 Stars
In general, robert altman is amazing with the realism of his films and this is no exception. One feels as if you are an observer in the time period and you can "feel" the emotions of the players. The actors are not made to be "pretty" as many of the big budget/big star products. They are, once again, realistic faced with issues of the times.
The film is depressing reflecting a depressing period in america. I would recommend the film to anyone that enjoys the gangster era of bonnie & clyde.
DVD Review: It's about time this DVD was released!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the first Robert Altman film I ever saw. The realistic re-creation of the period and the "no-acting" acting sucked me right in, thereby 'hooking' me on Altman (and Altman-ish) films forever.
The remarkable transformation of Shelley Duvall's "Keechy" from greasy-haired, floppy-eared picayune in the background to Leading Lady is one of the elements of the film which make it unforgettable.
Louise Fletcher is flawless as the matron Mattie, cautioning her children to mind their manners even as bad news looms darkly over the dinner table.
The DVD of "Thieves Like Us" came from seemingly nowhere -- Can "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," "Welcome to L.A." "Remember My Name" and "Health" be far behind?
Bring them on!
DVD Review: Another Altman Gem
Summary: 4 Stars
I would have loved the pitch meeting for this film. I'm sure the studio honchoes had "Bonnie and Clyde" dancing in their heads with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and a ballet of bullets. Their jaws must have dropped when they got...Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. All kidding aside this Depression era bankrobber saga is a great mood piece. Director Robert Altman isn't so much concerned with the visceral but with charaterization. Carradine and Duvall are certainly fine as our perfunctory "protagonists" but the real story is the supporting players. John Shuck is great as Carradine's moody hard drinking co-hort. Bert Remsen is even better as a gimpy banrobber who after every bank job adds five more to his running count. Louise Fletcher is understatement personified as a motel owner who shelters the crew. "Thieves Like Us" is definitely a picture worth checking out. Bring on "Brewster McCloud". As a sidebar, the cover photo on the DVD is sure misleading. I can't remember Shelley Duvall wearing anything but a dowdy dress throughout the whole movie.
Description of Thieves Like Us
The film follows the exploits of three recent prison escapees who become wanted after a string of bank robberies. While on the lam, the youngest member of the group falls for a girl and must balance his newfound love affair with the loyalty he has to his crew. Altman tells an honest story of ordinary people who fell into a life of crime because it was the only thing they knew how to do.Every few years Robert Altman gets rediscovered by critics and audiences, yet somehow this middle-period gem remains underviewed. It's hard to understand why. In 1974, when he made Thieves Like Us, Altman was in top form. He'd recently made McCabe and Mrs. Miller and The Long Goodbye, and the next year would bring Nashville, his touchstone masterwork. As with his other films, Thieves Like Us at first has a homemade immediacy, chugging along like back-porch skiffle music. Set in the Midwest of the 1930s, early scenes between the three thieves (Keith Carradine, Bert Remsen, and John Schuck) feel like silent-movie era routines about a trio of affable farm boys turned bank robbers. Altman's subject--the "thistledown" critic Pauline Kael once described as Altman's real material--emerges by degrees. The story of hell-bent innocents devolves into a tale of the spell cast over the boys by the newspaper stories that mythologize them. (They turn a corner when their pictures appear in an issue of Real Detective.) The string of bank robberies, interlaced with episodes of a shy romance between Carradine and his Coke-sucking girl, Keechie (Shelley Duvall), becomes an agrarian noir by way of Madame Bovary. These thieves lived just at the point when American pop culture was emerging; the cities may have had Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, but in the Altmanesque countryside sheet music was wallpaper and what pulled were radio serials such as Gangbusters. Compared at the time to Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Thieves Like Us now seems singular, a fable of fatal crime and punishment amid barbershop-quartet music and cricket song. --Lyall Bush
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