Small Time Crooks 2000, Rated PG Dreamworks Home Entertainment

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Starring Woody Allen, tracey Ullman, et al. Released to DVD on December 19, 2000.

The premise of Woody Allen's latest film, Small Time Crooks, is one of the better premises of the year. When a group of bumbling thieves (Allen, Michael Rappaport and Jon Lovitz, among others) decides to rent a New York store front and tunnel into the vault of a nearby bank, they agree to let one of their wives sell her homemade cookies in the store in order to keep their cover. However, the success the store has selling cookies quickly makes all the would-be bank robbers millionaires. However, this movie is nowhere near as much fun as the premise would suggest. Far too much time is spent watching the film's most dry characters interact and far too little time is spent watching the hysterically funny would-be robbers. This was another misstep for Woody.