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The Hot Rock

6.3

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Original title

The Hot Rock

Year

1972

Running time

105 min.

Country

United States

Director

Peter Yates

Screenwriter

William Goldman. Novel: Donald E. Westlake

Cast

Music

Quincy Jones

Cinematography

Edward R. Brown

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Comedy. Action | Heist Film

Synopsis

Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.

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Awards: 1972: Nominated for Oscar: Best Editing

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Critics' reviews

"Peter Yates’ direction and uniformly good cast partly overcome a William Goldman script that has many exciting and funny bits, but lacks a clear, unifying thrust."

Variety Staff: Variety
"It's only the movie's tendency to repeat itself and to stop for unnecessary scenes of character development that keep it from being a classically pure - which is to say, totally devious - caper movie."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"The dialogue is often painfully hip-cute, but the actors manage to be funny anyway."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"Yates paces the fast-moving thrills with precision."

The Guardian
"Laid-back caper movie, adapted by William Goldman from a Donald Westlake novel and directed with the lightest of touches by the perennially underrated Peter Yates."

Telegraph
"A lightweight film, but enjoyable nonetheless."

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