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Thief
Directed by
Michael Mann
R
1981
2h 3m
Drama
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7.4
80%
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After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.
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Cast of Thief
James Caan
Frank
Tuesday Weld
Jessie
Robert Prosky
Leo Alderman
Willie Nelson
David 'Okla' Bertinneau
Jim Belushi
Barry Stratagakis
Tom Signorelli
Vincent Attaglia
Dennis Farina
Carl
Nick Nickeas
Nick
W.R. Brown
Mitch Kanoff
Norm Tobin
Guido
John Santucci
Sgt. Urizzi
Gavin McFadyan
Det. Boreksco
Chuck Adamson
Det. Ancell
Sam Cirone
Det. Martello
Spero Anast
Det. Bukowski
Walter Scott
Detective D. Simpson
Sam T. Louis
Large Detective in Suit
William LaValley
Joseph
Lora Staley
Paula
Hal Frank
Joe Gags
Del Close
Mechanic #1
Bruce A. Young
Mechanic #2
John Kapelos
Mechanic #3
Mike Genovese
Bartender at Green Mill
Joan Lazzerini
Attaglia's Receptionist
Beverly Somerman
Secretary with Cup
Enrico R. Cannataro
Salesman at L&A Plating
Mary Louise Wade
Waitress #1 at Deli
Donna J. Fenton
Waitress #2 at Deli
Thomas Giblin
Mighty Joe Young Band
Willie Hayes
Mighty Joe Young Band
Conrad Mocarski
Mighty Joe Young Band
Benny Turner
Mighty Joe Young Band
William Petersen
Katz & Jammer Bartender
Steve Randolph
Bouncer at Katz & Jammer
Nancy Santucci
Hojo Waitress
Nathan Davis
Grossman
Thomas O. Erhart Jr.
Judge
Fredric Stone
Attorney Garner
Robert J. Kuper
Bailiff
Joene Hanhardt
Court Recorder
Marge Kotlisky
Mrs. Knowles
J. Jay Saunders
Doctor
Susan McCormick
Nurse
Karen Berger
Ruthie
Michael Paul Chan
Waiter at Chinese Restaurant
Tom Howard
Jewelry Salesman #1
Richard Karie
Jewelry Salesmen #2
Oscar DiLorenzo
Customer at Green Mill
Patty Ross
Marie
Margot Charlior
Rosa
Michael Mann
Director / Writer
Frank Hohimer
Writer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer
Ronnie Caan
Producer
Thief Ratings & Reviews
uhtred17
June 13, 2025
The night cinematography, especially in the opening of the film, is amazing and the soundtrack is incredible.
Arizona Republic
Michael Maza
Their courting scenes are masterpieces of flat-out negotiation, harshly lit, and yet somehow Caan and Ms. Weld touch their mutual attraction with an aura of romance.
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
Thief looks like a good movie... But, in spite of director Michael Mann's authentic sets and a workmanlike performance by Caan, the film never crackles. It merely ambles across the screen with no particular place to go.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The film's big acting surprise is the performance by Robert Prosky as Leo. In addition to the film's nighttime photography, it is the character of Leo who gives Thief much of its power and realism.
Detroit Free Press
Jack Mathews
Caan is a study in emotional contrasts, a character at once likable and unsympathetic.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
James Caan contributes a good performance as a sometimes-sympathetic title rolist, but a handful of secondary players are more memorable. Thief is full of that sort of contradiction.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
[Michael Mann] pounds his film into you in a combination of big, clean images; taut, edgy performances and a score which intertwines both sound and music. There is no respite from Thief; it is bravura movie making.
Newsday
Alex Keneas
Mann's romance with the technology and his preoccupation with this strange panorama intrude upon and occasionally digress statically but never eclipse his intent to show a topsy-turvy world.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
Loaded with striking night shots of back alleys and glittering skyscrapers, Thief has an all-pervading atmosphere of gloom that suggests it could have been the work of a European director, someone who is as much a master of his craft as Antonioni.
Orlando Sentinel
Dean Johnson
It is James Caan's tough-cocky-chilling performance that turns Thief into a disturbingly gripping character study -- and that, judging by the title, is what the movie is supposed to be.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
In his recent films, Caan has made some odd and, in Rollerball, self-defeating decisions about his roles. In Frank, the outwardly contented Chicago thief, he has found a character who plays entirely to his strengths.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
Unfortunately, the story is a rather thin one, not helped at all in the Caan-Weld scenes... Still, the caper sequences are enough to hold interest, and so is Caan's performance.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Thief is a hyped-up heist movie replete with glitzy camera work, moog music, strong acting, spurting blood and -- a hollow core.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
The bloodbaths that follow are flashy but empty exercises, pseudo-tragic searchings for a big finish. They make one tired and edgy -- and dissipate the promise that has energized much of Thief.
Newsweek
David Ansen
There's a strain of self-consciousness in Mann's macho, mechanistic style, but he's got power on his side. Thief envelops you in its tough, doom-laden grip and never lets go.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
By the time Thief winds down, Caan's characterization is listing several degrees starboard of The Exterminator. Keeping the major reservations in mind, Thief remains a fascinating and provocative movie.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Mann's observations are trite, derivative, and frequently sentimental; by giving us a professional burglar who yearns for the suburban security of wife and family, he comes weirdly close to an amalgam of Taxi Driver and Kramer vs. Kramer.
Boston Phoenix
Owen Gleiberman
Thief's half-hearted attempts to transcend suspense formulas by investing its characters with bits of "humanity" backfire: in trying to be more than another action film, it ends up something less.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Grandiloquent masochism of the kind an adolescent boy might fantasize. With rain outside and and smoke inside, this Chicago-set movie is almost a parody of film noir.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
Thief achieves formal neatness at the expense of complexity, humor, and even minimal plausibility, but the very eccentricity of the movie makes it intriguing, and I love the look of it.
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