The Maiden Heist
by Peter Hewitt
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Actor: Christopher Walken, Joseph McKenna, Marcia Gay Harden, Patricia B. Till, Wynn EverettDirector: Peter Hewitt
Brand: Son
Producer: Bob Yari
Producer: C. Cory M. McCrum-Abdo
Producer: David Glasser
Producer: Jonathan McCoy
Producer: Kim H. Winther
Producer: Lori McCreary
Writer: Michael LeSieur
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-11-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Maiden Heist
Movie Review: Fools Fall in Love
Summary: 5 Stars
THE MAIDEN HEIST (2008) directed by Peter Hewitt (ZOOM, see my review) is one of those gentle, hilarious comedies that remind me of Australian and British type things. (Hewitt is British.) It is a DELIGHT and not a single real swear word throughout the marvelous little jewel of a film.
George (William H. Macy), Roger (Christopher Walken), and Charles (Morgan Freeman) are hilarious everyday-Joe security guards at a Boston museum of art. Each has his true love - a work of art for each one - and they sigh with complete and total LOVE just seeing their artworks. One day they hear about a complete move: a Denmark museum has decided to buy the works in exchange for some horrid artworks that are thankfully only mentioned and not shown.
The boys decide they will steal their particular coveted works. For George it is a bronze of a naked man called "The Bronze Warrior"; for Roger it is "The Lonely Maiden" painting and for gay Charles it is "Woman with Cats" or something - all are fictional works and I love that detail. Each work shows us a bit of what each man truly is inside. Their plan, though I thought it way too easy, works like a charm.
With a team like Walken, Freeman and Macy it cannot be anything but great - the film never disappoints. Though it reminded me a little too often of THE SUNSHINE BOYS, it works so well on that simple, happy level. Yet there is a real tension in their plans, and the way the kinks get smoothed along the way.
This was filmed at Boston Commons and I like that - too many Canadian locations for my blood nowadays. The performances, many of them ad-lib, are spectacular but quiet. Though I know nearly nothing about this, since I never saw it new and I hear it was direct-to-video, it needed to impress no one.
Yet it is one of the most impressive films I've ever enjoyed. I wish my parents were here to see it too.
And if you are an artist, well, there's no limit to the joy in identifying with these sensitive, tender-hearted art thieves (I prefer to call them "defenders"). Get this classic. You'll never regret it.
Summary of The Maiden Heist
No description available for this title.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 11/24/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
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