Thieves Like Us
Robert Altman brings Edward Anderson's classic novel (already filmed by Nicholas Ray in 1949 as They Live by Night) to the screen in this moving and thought-provoking crime story set against the backdrop of America's Depression Era. When convicted killers Bowie (Keith Carradine), Chicamaw (John Schuck) and T-Dub (Bert Remsen) escape from prison, they return to the only thing they know, bank robbery, embarking on a crime spree across 1930s rural Mississippi. Along the way, Bowie begins a touching romance with Keechie (Shelley Duvall), a local farm girl who longs for him to abandon his life of crime. With the police and the press hot on their trail and closing in, however, it becomes clear that there is little hope of breaking the cycle of larceny and violence...
Year: 1974
Genre: Art House Cinema, Road Movies
Country: USA
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck
Duration: 118 Minutes
Rating: R16
7.1/10
Location in store: Art House Cinema
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