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The Thomas Crown Affair

Year:
Duration:
113 min
Genres:
Crime | Romance | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
John McTiernan
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1999-08-06
Filming Locations: Reid Hall, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, USA
Earnings
Budget: $48,000,000
Opening Weekend: $14,600,719 (USA) (8 August 1999)
Gross: $69,304,264 (USA) (13 February 2000)
Cast
Actor
Character
Rene Russo
Rene Russo
The Thomas Crown Affair
Mischa Hausserman
Mischa Hausserman
The Thomas Crown Affair
Pierce Brosnan
Thomas Crown
Denis Leary
Michael McCann
Ben Gazzara
Andrew Wallace
Frankie Faison
Detective Paretti
Fritz Weaver
John Reynolds
Charles Keating
Friedrich Golchan
Mark Margolis
Heinrich Knutzhorn
Faye Dunaway
The Psychiatrist
Michael Lombard
Bobby McKinley
Bill Ambrozy
Proctor
Michael Bahr
Proctor
Robert D. Novak
Proctor
Joe H. Lamb
Proctor
James Saito
Paul Cheng
Esther Cañadas
Anna Knudsen
Daniel Oreskes
Petru
Dominic Chianese Jr.
Dimetri
Ritchie Coster
Janos
Gregg Bello
Iggy
John P. McCann
Senior Detective
Gino Lucci
Freight Truck Driver
George Christy
Senior Museum Guard
Mike Danner
Forklift Operator
James J. Archer
J.J. the Security Guard
John Elsen
New York City Cop
Robert Spillane
Crown Acquisitions Security Officer
Daniel Jamal Gibson
Sam
Cynthia Darlow
Daria, Crown's Secretary
Sherry Koftan
Crown Acquistions Employee
Jane DeNoble
Crown Acquisitions Employee
Gene Bozzi
Crown Acquisitions Employee
Ryan Hecht
Crown Acquisitions Employee
Paul Simon
Crown Acquisitions Employee
Tom Tammi
Businessman
Mark Zeisler
Bulldog
Mark Zimmerman
Bulldog
Daniel Southern
Crown Acquisitions Executive (as Dan Southern)
James Yaegashi
Crown Acquisitions Executive
Ira Wheeler
Old Man
David Adkins
Son
John McKay
Company Lawyer (as John A. MacKay)
Melissa Maxwell
Teacher
Colleen Hamm
Schoolgirl
Timothy Wheeler
Museum Security Technician
John Thrall Bush
Museum Security Guard
Dominic Marcus
Museum Security Guard
Robert Lewis Stephenson
Museum Security Guard (as Robert Stephenson)
David Toney
Museum Security Guard
Phillip Douglas
Museum Security Guard
Jeffrey Dreisbach
Junior Proctor
R.J. Remo
Smoking Kid
Caleb Archer
Smoking Kid
Dennis Creaghan
Museum Director Jim Lenox
Randy Phillips
National Art Club Guest
Gloria Barnes
National Art Club Guest
Mimi Weddell
National Art Club Guest
Pat Friedlander
National Art Club Guest
Gary L. Catus
National Art Club Guest
Jeremy Nagel
Tommy, Crown's Caddy
John C. Havens
Museum Operating Technician
Annie Rose Murray
Woman Spectator
Bill Tatum
Gentleman Yachtsman
Teddy Coluca
Detective in Restaurant
Michael Charles
Detective in Restaurant
Orlando Carafa
Cipriani Waiter
Ben Epps
Male Associate
Kim D. Cannon
Cleaning Man
Douglas Kahelemauna Nam
Cleaning Man
Richard Russell Ramos
Dr. Cornelius
John Seidman
Forensics Expert George French
Robert Ian Mackenzie
Jeweler
Yusef Bulos
Second Jeweler
Ray Virta
Museum Detective
Thomas Michael Sullivan
Museum Special Police
J. Paul Boehmer
Museum Detective
Tony Cucci
Watching Cop
Paul Geoffrey
Another Cop
R.E. Rodgers
Uniform Cop
Tom Bloom
Crown Imposter
Kim Craven
Ticket Agent
Marion McCorry
Stewardess
Sean Haberle
Ramp Manager
Mikel Sarah Lambert
Wealthy Woman
Angelo Fraboni
Featured Dancer
Melanie LaPatin
Featured Dancer
Jodi Ellen Melnick
Featured Dancer (as Jodi Melnick)
Tony Meredith
Featured Dancer
Michael Terrace
Featured Dancer
Courtney Bennett
Bit Part (uncredited)
Diana Berry
Museum Patron (uncredited)
Steve Bilich
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Kimberly Evan
Model (uncredited)
Charles Gemmill
Detective
Simon Jones
The Accountant (uncredited)
Timothy Klein
Officer Klein (uncredited)
Mark A. Langston
Thief (uncredited)
Andy Redmond
Precinct Detective (uncredited)
Victoria Rong
Model #2 (uncredited)
Eliot Sash
Dancer (Black & White Ball) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The catamaran that Thomas Crown is seen racing in Long Island Sound is a D-Type Catamaran. The earliest Class D catamarans were designed and built by individual amateur designers as early as 1963. Richard Karcher, Watchung, NJ built either USD#1 or #2 at the time. His "D" boats were sailed on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey for several years on an experimental basis. Richard also designed and manufactured several other types limited production catamarans at the time, one of which was considered as the official Olympic Class Catamaran and participated in the trial in England. Due to the vast amount of power that this design represented, no "production" versions were ever produced and interest and research into this Class waned. Years later in the 1980s interest in this extremely fast and highly unstable yacht design was revived by California based aeronautical engineers who tried to break inshore multi-hull speed records. Today there are only a handful of them left in the world.
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The idea of unusual heat in the museum rendering thermal cameras useless came from director John McTiernan's earlier movie Predator (1987). In that movie, McTiernan's actual thermal cameras began to fail when the jungle temperature broke 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The Claude Monet paintings used in the film, "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" and "Wheatstacks", are, of course, reproductions and were supplied by "Troubetzkoy Paintings" in New York, USA. What's more, the originals are not owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" is owned by the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan and is currently (2003) on display in the National Museum and Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. "Wheatstacks" is at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The painting Crown admires and calls "his haystacks" is Vincent van Gogh's "Noon: Rest From Work (After Millet)", the original of which is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
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Goofs
In the film the painting stolen by Mr. Crown: "San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk " by Monet, is said to be the first impressionistic painting in the world. But according to Wikipedia the first painting is "Impression, soleil levant", also by Monet, which gave name to "Impressionism".
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Having established from the security cameras that someone (Mr. Crown) hid a briefcase under the bench in front of the painting to assist in the robbery, it's curious that the security staff never thinks to wind the tape back far enough to see who put it there. However, under thermal imaging it's impossible to make out people's features, so backing up the video would not have identified Crown.
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On the day of the original art museum theft, they say it is a very hot day. Yet they then show the streets of New York where several people are wearing overcoats.
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Quotes
The Psychiatrist: [laughing] Peter Pan grows up, and discovers there's no place to land!
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Catherine Banning: Am I really that transparent?
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Thomas Crown: Regret is usually a waste of time, as is gloating
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Faq
Q
How did Catherine get Thomas' keys and get them back to him without him knowing?
A
When they were in the museum, she says it's cold so Crown puts his jacket on her shoulders. She grabs his keys from his coat and puts it on a display stand. One of the cops in disguise takes it from the stand. Thomas and Catherine go to dinner, and the cop brings the original keys to the restaurant. Later, as she kisses Thomas goodnight, Catherine slips his keys back into his pocket.
Q
What is a Trojan Horse?
A
The thieves came into the museum in a hollow statue of a horse that they called a 'Trojan horse.' This is in reference to the end of the Trojan War in Greek mythology in which the Greeks pretended to retreat and left behind a huge wooden horse filled with soldiers. When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, they believed the war was over and dragged the horse inside the city. The following night, the Greeks left the wooden horse and attacked the unsuspecting Trojans, subsequently conquering Troy.
Q
Was it ever explained how Thomas got the Impressionist room 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the museum in order to block the cameras?
A
After the thieves cut the wires on the air conditioning unit, the temperature in the Impressionism wing would begin to rise, commensurate with the fact that it was a hot day as mentioned in the movie. The numbers of warm bodies in the room would also add to the buildup. Some viewers have suggested that the direct sun from the overhead skylight would act like a greenhouse and further increase the heat. It was curious, however, that the same lack of air conditioning and buildup of ambient heat still allowed images to show up on the cameras, whereas the camera in the Monet room was a total washout, suggesting that there was an additional heat source somewhere in that room. When Catherine discovered 'the third leg', the briefcase under the bench that Thomas planted during an earlier visit and in which he later carried out the Monet, she theorized that it might have held a compact heater. If the heater was not in the briefcase, it was elsewhere in the room (e.g., the air duct).
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