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The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American crime, heist, drama and romance film directed and produced by Norman Jewison for The Mirisch Company. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke and Jack Weston star, with cinematography by Haskell Wexler, editing by Hal Ashby, and music performed and composed by Michel Legrand. It was filmed in New Hampshire, with its narrative set in Boston.
Rated R, the film had a budget of $4,300,000 and a box office of $14,000,000, and was distributed by United Artists and Netflix.
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6.8A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
Cast
- Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown
- Faye Dunaway as Vicki Anderson
- Paul Burke as Eddy Malone
- Jack Weston as Erwin
- Biff McGuire as Sandy
- Addison Powell as Abe
Themes
- plan
- businessman
- in love with enemy
- boredom
- hold-up robbery
- insurance fraud
- heist
- theft
- millionaire
- insurance agent
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
30,142 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
70%
Metacritic
66/100
- Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Norman Jewison
- Written by
- Alan R. Trustman
- Produced by
- Norman Jewison
- Starring
- Steve McQueen Faye Dunaway Paul Burke Jack Weston
- Cinematography
- Haskell Wexler
- Edited by
- Hal Ashby Ralph E. Winters Byron Brandt
- Music by
- Michel Legrand
- Production companies
- The Mirisch Corporation Simkoe Solar Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- June 19, 1968 ( 1968-06-19 )
- Running time
- 102 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.3 million
- Box office
- $14 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- detective film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Norman Jewison
- Cast member
- Todd Martin
- Composer
- Michel Legrand
- Producer
- Norman Jewison
- Production company
- The Mirisch Company
- Cinematographer
- Haskell Wexler
- Narrative location
- Boston
- Filming location
- New Hampshire
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 106948
- Performer
- Michel Legrand
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1968-06-26
- film editor
- Hal Ashby
- title
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- distributed by
- Netflix
- derivative work
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- different from
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- review score
- 66/100
- capital cost
- 4300000
- box office
- 14000000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed by Norman Jewison and written by Alan R. Trustman. Starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, and Jack Weston, the film follows Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) who is hired to investigate the culprits of a multi-million dollar bank heist, orchestrated by Thomas Crown (McQueen).
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999, and a second remake is set to be released in 2027. A Hong Kong version of the movie was released in 1987 under the title Easy Money, starring Michelle Yeoh as Thomas Crown's female version.
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