Crackers

Crackers

The Comedy that dreams the impossible scheme!

1984 · 98 min · ★ 4.7 · Action, Comedy, Crime

Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.

Directed by Louis Malle · Written by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

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