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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 15, 1999
• R2: 7 May 2001
Budget $1,500,000
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Country USA
Studio Cinerama, Palomar Pictures International
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Other Titles
• Take the Money and Run
• Nimm die Moneten und hau' ab (1975)
• Woody, der Unglücksrabe (1975)
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Genre: Crime, Comedy, Thieves, Slapstick, Prison, Scams And Cons, Cult Classic, Courtroom, Blackmail, Hostage, Marriage, Police, Spoof
Tagline: crime lives!
Plot: Woody Allen's directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mockumentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of the hapless criminal and his ridiculous plans that repeatedly blow up in his face--sometimes literally. When Starkwell, played by Allen, falls in love with Louise (Janet Margolin), he tries to change, but he comes to realize that he is a born criminal--and a born loser. Allen fills the film with sight gags galore including his escape from prison using a gun made out of soap and then getting caught in the rain, and his parents being interviewed wearing Groucho Marx disguises. Many bits from his stand-up routine are also scattered throughout the screenplay, co-written with Mickey Rose. Numerous themes in this film show up in Allen's later work, but here they are played exclusively for laughs--and the laughs come nonstop as Virgil puts together a gang and plans a big bank job that he believes will get his family back on their feet. Allen's wonderful documentary style influenced such later mockumentaries as THIS IS SPINAL TAP and THE RUTLES. It is relentless in its verbal and visual attack on the senses--a worthy debut for a filmmaker
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| Directed by |
Woody Allen
Match Point, Everyone Says I Love You, Bullets Over Broadway |
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| Mickey Rose
Bananas, Condorman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
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| Janet Margolin
Annie Hall, Ghostbusters II, The Greatest Story Ever Told |
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Buried Alive, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Gladiator | |
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| Music By |
Marvin Hamlisch
Three Men and a Baby, Ordinary People, The Spy Who Loved Me |
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