Small Time Crooks is a 2000 American crime-comedy film directed, written, and starring Woody Allen, narrated by Richard Attenborough and along with Tracey Ullman and Hugh Grant. Ray and his friends want to lease an old restaurant so they can tunnel from the basement of the restaurant to a nearby bank. Frenchy covers what they are doing by selling cookies from the restaurant. The bank robbery scheme is a miserable failure, but after they franchise the business, selling cookies makes them millionaires. In the film's second act, Frenchy throws a big party and overhears people making fun of... their decorating taste and lack of culture. She asks a man named David to train her and Ray so they can fit in with the American upper class. Ray hates every minute of it, but Frenchy likes their new culture. What Ray and Frenchy don't know is that David is really just using Frenchy to get money for art projects he wants to do. Ray finally gets fed up and leaves Frenchy. David and Frenchy go to Europe for more cultural enlightenment and while there, she gets a call and finds out she's been defrauded by her accountants.
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| Release date: | May 19, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Woody Allen |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jean Doumanian |
| Editor: | Alisa Lepselter |
| Cinematography: | Zhao Fei |
| Screenplay by: | Woody Allen |
| Estimated budget: | $18,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |