3D’s Need to See: Sneakers Edition
In keeping with my heist movie theme for this month, I’m recommending the 1992 comedy “Sneakers.” If you haven’t seen this film, then you must not know who is in it: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, Dan Ackroyd, River Phoenix, Timothy Busfield, Mary McDonnell, Sir Ben Kinsley, and James Earl Jones. It is quite a cast, and they have terrific chemistry.
The movie is based on the idea of a group of talented individuals, with somewhat shady pasts, who have formed a business where they test people’s security by breaching it. In the words of one of the characters, “So, people pay you to break into their places, to make sure that no one can break into their places.” It is an interesting idea, and it’s amusing to see them utililizing their skills in this manner.
However, it wouldn’t be a movie if a job didn’t go horribly wrong, and our heroes weren’t forced to use their skills to make it right. On a side note, it’s interesting to look back at the technology in this film from so many years later and see how far things have come. But the movie itself still holds up as a witty, light-hearted heist caper. If you haven’t already, then you need to see “Sneakers.”
—3D
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