The Good Thief

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  • Opened April 2, 2003 
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • R | language, sexuality, drug content and some violence
  • Nick Nolte stars in director Neil Jordan's crime thriller as Bob, an aging gambler. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Bob travels to the south of France to rob a specific casino. What he doesn't know is that someone is already aware of his plan, and has informed the authorities... Full synopsis

  • Cast: Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon
  • Director: Neil Jordan
  • Genres: Suspense/Thriller

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Baltimore Sun
| Michael Sragow

Nolte's gambler-bandit Bob Montagnet is a triumph of imagination, touched with electric existential poetry. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Nick Nolte plays a great shambling wreck of a wounded Hemingway hero in The Good Thief, a film that's like a descent into the funkiest dive on the wrong side of the wrong town. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Jami Bernard

With his haggard good looks and bearish presence, Nolte is the main event in this colorful three-ring circus of a heist picture. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Cinema as jazz. More precisely, jazz traded by the likes of Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Chet Baker -- blurry, opiated, jagged with melancholy and stone cold beautiful. Read full review

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