View production, box office, & company info. Fan safety is our priority. See our COVID policy here. '[8] In a negative review for The Washington Post, Gary Arnold called the film 'disappointing', writing that 'the beautiful images seem to freeze or petrify on the screen, because Altman does not bring any intensity to the narrative'. The story focuses on Bowie, Chicamaw, and T-Dub. The supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt. A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. It's the closest to flawless of Altman's films—a masterpiece. The film features a large number of small-town people as extras. "Thieves Like Us" is a single by British group New Order, released in April 1984 by Factory Records. It was directed by Robert Altman and starred Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. 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The young lovers begin to move out of the sphere in which they have met, a last robbery in Yazoo City goes badly and puts paid to the gang once and for all as a profitable venture, but isn't the end of the story quite yet, as all three are wanted and notorious men with altogether different points of view on the situation they are faced with. The characters are totally different; “Bonnie and Clyde” were anti-heroes, but this gang of Altman’s has no heroism at all. The supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt. )While this story, on the surface, is about a group of outlaws in the 1930's, the underlying theme is unexpected. We see people through mirrors a lot, and see them clearly, but whenever a character looks at him/herself in a mirror, it's a distorting mirror.There is a lot of layering of ideas in this film, and the performances are superb. 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