Take the Money and Run
crime lives!
crime lives!
Comedy, Crime
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1969
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Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Runtime:
85 min
Release date:
18 Aug 1969
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Yiddish
Budget:
$1,530,000
Revenue:
$6,080,000
Awards:
3 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Whatever its genesis, Allen's scraggly rhetoric evolved into the dominant comic style of the 70s.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
10 May 2013
rotten:
A few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy -- something very special and eccentric and funny.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
It has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chaingang break with five shackled cons in tow.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006