USA: FILM MAKER WOODY ALLEN CELEBRATES WORLD PREMIERE OF THE 30TH FILM AS DIRECTOR 'SMALL TIME CROOKS'

Record ID: 389276

  • Title: USA: FILM MAKER WOODY ALLEN CELEBRATES WORLD PREMIERE OF THE 30TH FILM AS DIRECTOR 'SMALL TIME CROOKS'
  • Date: 30th April 2000
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 30) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) HUGH GRANT SAYING OF WORKING WITH WOODY ALLEN, It was heaven. It's something I've always wanted to do, you know, I've always been rather hurt that he's never asked me to be in one before because I always thought I would be rather good in his films and I was the last member of British Equity
  • Embargoed: 15th May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, US AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAD7M5EDYZXXMCPY091PPAUW4XT
  • Story Text: Filmmaker Woody Allen has celebrated the World Premiere of his 30th film as a director "Small Time Crooks" in New York. His co-stars Hugh Grant and Tracey Ullman also attended.
    The movie is the story of Ray and Frenchy Winkler, played by Allen and Tracy Ullman, a working class New York couple who plan to break out of their hard-knock existence by robbing a bank. However, once they succeed, they find a bigger challenge in trying to fit into nouveau-riche New York City high society.
    Although the film, like most of Allen's projects, is an ensemble, it features substantial roles for Hugh Grant as a suave but duplicitous art dealer and screenwriter Elaine May as Frenchy's dim-witted sister.
    Given its subject matter and broad, slapstick comedic style, "Small Time Crooks" is being compared to some of Allen's earlier work, specifically his 1969 debut as a director "Take the Money and Run."
    "Small Time Crooks" opens in theaters throughout the United States on Friday, May 19.
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