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47% Critic Match
Crackers
“The Comedy that dreams the impossible scheme!”
4.7 / 10• 1984• 1h 38m•NR• English
ActionComedyCrime
Storyline
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.
Cast & Crew
Donald Sutherland
Westlake
Lead
Jack Warden
Garvey
Sean Penn
Dillard
Wallace Shawn
Turtle
Larry Riley
Boardwalk
Trinidad Silva
Ramon
Christine Baranski
Maxine
Charlayne Woodard
Jasmine
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Louis Malle's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Crackers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
