Movie Theatre flop?!
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seamhead — 11 years ago(June 04, 2014 10:30 PM)
All due respect but James Caan had been a big movie star for almost a decade before "Thief" came out. He'd been nominated for an Oscar for "The Godfather" in 1973, four Golden Globes and an Emmy, and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978. He'd already been in "Brian's Song," the first two "Godfather" movies, "Funny Lady," "Rollerball" and a handful of other good flicks.
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franzkabuki — 11 years ago(June 19, 2014 02:30 PM)
Caan was a well known actor and something of a "star" I suppose, but hardly some special box office draw; he was no Redford or Pacino. Mann couldn't have expected his presence to make much difference financially.
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MrBlondNYC — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 01:37 PM)
It came out in March which is typically a slow time for movies especially back then. None of the movies that came out in March 1981 were hits. Also, the above poster is wrong about James Caan. He was a major star at the time. The previous year he starred in Chapter Two which was a big hit.
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jrs-8 — 11 years ago(June 26, 2014 11:22 AM)
I saw this when it first came out and loved it so much I went back and saw it again the next day. I have always been confounded as to why the film was a flop. The reviews were generally good and James Caan was a star, though I might argue with the above poster that the success of Chapter Two could be credited to Caan. I think it was just as much because of Neil Simon's popularity as well. Marsha Mason was also popular. If you take that film out you would be hard pressed to find a hit Caan starred in. I think you would have to go back 6 pictures and 6 years to find the last one, Rollerball. But I digress. Thief is a great movie and it's failure at the box office is puzzling.
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MrBlondNYC — 11 years ago(June 26, 2014 11:46 AM)
I never said the success of Chapter Two should be credited to Caan alone. I said that he starred in it and it was a hit. Obviously, the success of a film is because of all the major talents involved. Jeez.
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Butteoid — 11 years ago(October 27, 2014 06:00 PM)
I saw it in the theater too and I liked it a lot still do, to this day.
Michael Mann was pretty much unknown then, but the styles he established in Thief he used again and again in more successful films.
Maybe it was ahead of its time, like the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.