Product Description

Slick, sophisticated romantic caper film starring Steve McQueen as a cool Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist, then carries on a torrid romance with beautiful insurance investigator Faye Dunaway. Highlighted by inventive camerawork, chic surroundings and the Oscar-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind." With Jack Weston, Paul Burke and Yaphet Kotto; directed by Norman Jewison. 102 min. Standard and Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French; audio commentary by Jewison; theatrical trailer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5141 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2005-05-17
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 102 minutes

Amazon.com
Millionaire businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is also a high-stakes thief; his latest caper is an elaborate heist at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he flies gliders, bets on golf strokes, and races dune buggies: he needs the thrill to feel alive. Insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) gets her own thrills by busting crooks, and she's got Crown in her cross hairs. Naturally, these two will get it on, because they have a lot in common: they're not people, they're walking clothes racks. (McQueen looks like he'd rather be in jeans than Crown's natty three-piece suits.) The Thomas Crown Affair is a catalog of '60s conventions, from its clipped editing style to its photographic trickery (the inventive Haskell Wexler behind the camera) to its mod design. You can almost sense director Norman Jewison deciding to "tell his story visually," like those newfangled European films; this would explain the long passages of Michel Legrand's lounge jazz ladled over endless montages of the pretty Dunaway and McQueen at play. (The opening-credits song, "Windmills of Your Mind," won an Oscar.) It's like a "What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?" ad come to life, and much more interesting as a cultural snapshot than a piece of storytelling. --Robert Horton