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Crackers (1984)

Directed by Louis Malle

Overview

Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey’s shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.

Length 98 minutes

Actors

Donald Sutherland | Jack Warden | Sean Penn | Wallace Shawn | Larry Riley | Trinidad Silva | Christine Baranski | Charlayne Woodard | Tasia Valenza | Irwin Corey | Edouard DeSoto | Anna Maria Horsford | Mitchell Lichtenstein | Marjorie Eaton | Ed Call | Joseph Hindy | Charles Bouvier | Dick Bright | Paul Drake | Ed Corbett | James Edward Bryan | Darryl Henriques | Joe Bellan | Gary Ross | Maria Alcorcha | Sally Schaub | Elba Montes | Raymond Rios | James Richard Bryan | Jeffrey Weissman | Gary Guidinger