Catherine Zeta-Jones works for an insurance agency that sends her to track down and help capture an art thief, played by Sean Connery.
After studies in English literature, Jon Amiel graduated from Cambridge University and ran the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, which often toured the USA. He became the Hampstead Theatre Company’s literary manager and began directing there, relocating to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Amiel joined the BBC as a story editor, studied television directing and did TV work through the late 1970s and early 1980s, scoring attention in 1985 with Silent Twins, The (1985), an unforgettable recreation of the tragic “silent twins” June and Jennifer Gibbons, who spoke only to each other. Airing during the same year Marjorie Wallace’s non-fiction book The Silent Twins (1986) was published by Prentice Hall), the docudrama was the BBC’s selection for entry at the Locarno and Montreal Film Festivals.
As noted in Stephen Gilbert’s biography of Dennis Potter, Amiel was working on The Silent Twins (1986) when Kenith Trodd gave him the six Singing Detective scripts. After… read more
This very underrated adventure/heist movie about two professional thieves competing together, is just what we praise Hollywood for: fun, complex love relations (with a Howard Hawks touch), adventure orientation and about men and women put themselves in danger just for fun. a film for those looking for deep entertainment and not a one for serious minders. Zeta Jones moving her body between lazers is memorable
This film like it’s stars are beautiful to look at but here they don’t have much depth. There is nothing really in this movie other then the shot in the movie that the trailer spoils of Catherine Zeta… read review
