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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)

The Thomas Crown Affair
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Original theatrical poster
Directed by John McTiernan
Produced by Michael Tadross
Pierce Brosnan
Beau St. Clair
Screenplay by Leslie Dixon
Kurt Wimmer
Story by Alan Trustman
Starring
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography Tom Priestly
Edited by John Wright
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 6, 1999 (1999-08-06)
Running time
113 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $45 million
Box office $124,305,181
The Thomas Crown Affair
Soundtrack album by Bill Conti, Sting and Nina Simone
Released September 7, 1999 (original)
March 8, 2002 (re-release)
Recorded 1999
Genre Soundtrack
Length 37:44
Label Ark 21 (original)
Pangaea (re-release)
Soundtrack
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars link

The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American heist film directed by John McTiernan. The film, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. The film generally received positive reviews. It was a success at the box office, grossing $124 million worldwide.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an attempted robbery of precious paintings fails when museum employees discover imposters posing as staff who have been smuggled in using a Trojan Horse. In all the confusion of locking down the museum and capturing the robbers, billionaire Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) slips into an adjacent room and steals the painting of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Monet. The insurers of the $100 million artwork send investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) to assist NYPD Detective Michael McCann (Denis Leary) in solving the crime. McCann is annoyed that he has a civilian involved in the investigation, but is attracted to Banning. He asks his second in command to do a background check on her and finds she is more than just a pretty face.

The next morning as the police are reviewing video of the robbery, Banning shows up. They notice that the room containing the Monet couldn't be seen on the screen. In discussing why with a museum employee, they deduce that something caused the temperature to rise in that room so the new cameras couldn't differentiate between people and walls. She goes back to the room with Michael where she realizes that one of the benches only has two legs when in the video it had three. They then brainstorm over what could have been in the briefcase to cause the change in temperature. Crown not only shows up to finger one of the detained robbers, but donates one of his own personal paintings that fits the same space as the Monet. After watching Crown, she looks up who has been attempting to buy Monets and finds his name on the list again and again. She convinces Michael to let her begin surveillance on him and finds that he is someone who would steal the painting not for the money, but for the excitement. After the press conference donating the new painting, Catherine attracts Crown by intimating that she knows he what he did. On her way out, he asks her for a date and she accepts.


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