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Take the Money and Run
Comedy, Crime
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy deadpan crime farce, mock-documentary framing, and lovable losers whose grand ambitions collapse through sheer ineptitude.
- Tone
- playful, darkly comic, satirical
- Payoff
- amusement
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, incompetence, bad luck, crime, romance
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, urban neighborhoods, prisons, and suburban communities