Thieves Like Us (1974)
Directed by Robert Altman
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.
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Plot: In this picturesque Texas crime saga reminiscent of such '70s classics as Badlands and Thieves Like Us, an outlaw (Affleck) runs away from prison to reunite with his crime partner wife (Mara) and see his daughter for the first time.
Plot: In this picturesque Texas crime saga reminiscent of such '70s classics as Badlands and Thieves Like Us, an outlaw (Affleck) runs away from prison to reunite with his crime partner wife (Mara) and see his daughter for the first time.
Drawing on movies like Gun Crazy, Thieves Like Us and, of course, Bonnie and Clyde, Niccol gives us a combination crime spree/love story.
The two hit the road like the hunted, gun-crazy lovers in Badlands, Thieves Like Us, and, well, Gun Crazy.
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Robert Altman had done a couple of period films before Gosford Park, but McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us were far grittier than this Agatha Christie-style whodunit set in a majestic English country house.
Altman made four or five masterpieces in the early l970s, “M.A.S.H.,” “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” (my personal favorite), “The Long Goodbye,” “Thieves Like Us,” and the Oscar-nominated “Nashville,” which was also singled out as the best film of l975 by my New York colleagues.