Small Time Crooks

This week Oscar and Diggory look back at Hugh's performance in crime-comedy Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen, 2000). 

Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray (played by Woody Allen) plots with his wife (played by Tracey Ullman) and partners-in-crime to re-open a local pizza restaurant so they can dig underneath it through to the bank a few doors down. As they can't cook pizza, they bake cookies to sell instead and, while the no-hope tunnellers get lost underground, the cookie operation really takes off. Suddenly, the would-be crooks find themselves as rich business people, fraternising with the likes of David Perrette (played by Hugh Grant). However, the other local money isn't quite ready to accept them and Ray and his wife wonder whether getting rich was really worth it...

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