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The Thomas Crown Affair<\/i> 1999 film Immersive Movie Experience<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n
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The Thomas Crown Affair<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a 1999 American\u00a0romantic<\/a>\u00a0heist film<\/a>\u00a0directed by\u00a0John McTiernan<\/a>\u00a0and written by\u00a0Leslie Dixon<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kurt Wimmer<\/a>. It is a\u00a0remake<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a01968 film of the same name<\/a>. Its story follows Thomas Crown, a billionaire who steals a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is pursued by an insurance investigator, with the two falling in love. It stars\u00a0Pierce Brosnan<\/a>,\u00a0Rene Russo<\/a>, and\u00a0Denis Leary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film, produced by\u00a0United Artists<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Irish DreamTime<\/a>, was released on August 6, 1999. It grossed $124.3 million worldwide, against a budget of $48 million, and received generally positive reviews from critics.<\/p>\n

Thieves infiltrate the\u00a0Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0inside an actual\u00a0Trojan horse<\/a>, preparing to steal an entire gallery of paintings, but are apprehended. In the confusion, billionaire Thomas Crown \u2013 the crime’s secret mastermind \u2013 steals\u00a0Monet’s<\/a>\u00a0painting of\u00a0San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk<\/a><\/i>. NYPD Detective Michael McCann heads the investigation into the theft of the $100 million artwork, with the unwelcome assistance of insurance investigator Catherine Banning.<\/p>\n

Crown lends a\u00a0Pissarro<\/a>\u00a0to fill the Monet’s space in the museum and falls under Banning’s suspicion. She persuades McCann to begin surveillance of Crown, deducing that he is motivated not by money but by the sheer thrill of the crime. Banning later accepts Crown’s invitation to dinner.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

At dinner, Banning has a copy of Crown’s keys made; she and her team search his home and discover the Monet, which is revealed to be a taunting\u00a0imitation<\/a>\u00a0painted over a copy of\u00a0Poker Sympathy<\/i>\u00a0from the\u00a0Dogs Playing Poker<\/a><\/i>\u00a0series. Banning confronts Crown, and the two give in to their mutual attraction and have\u00a0sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Banning and Crown continue their\u00a0cat-and-mouse game<\/a>\u00a0and their trysts, despite McCann’s surveillance. Accompanying Crown on a trip to\u00a0Martinique<\/a>, Banning realizes he is preparing to run but rejects his offer to join him when the time comes. McCann presents Banning with photographs of Crown with another woman, Anna, complicating her feelings toward the case and her prime suspect. Banning and McCann discover that the fake Monet is in fact an expert forgery that could only have been painted by someone with access to the original; they visit the likeliest forger, Heinrich Knutzhorn, in prison, to no avail, although his body language suggests to them that he recognizes the work.<\/p>\n

Later, Banning finds Crown packing his belongings with Anna. He promises Banning his interest lies with her alone, stating that Anna works for him but he would be compromising her to define the nature of their association. Crown offers to return the Monet by putting it back on the wall of the museum, and gives Banning a time and place to meet him when he’s finished. Tearfully, Banning leaves and informs McCann.<\/p>\n

The following day, the police stake out the museum, waiting to arrest Crown.<\/p>\n

Banning learns from McCann that the fake Monet was painted by Anna; the imprisoned forger Knutzhorn is her father, a former business partner of Crown, who became her guardian. Crown arrives and advertises his position in the lobby.<\/p>\n

The police realize that Crown expected Banning to turn him in and that he has set up another plot. Before the police can apprehend him,<\/p>\n

Crown blends into the crowd, aided by lookalikes in bowler hats \u00e0 la\u00a0Magritte’s<\/a>\u00a0The Son of Man<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Evading the officers, Crown releases smoke bombs and pulls a fire alarm, setting off the museum’s fire sprinklers. His donated Pissarro, hanging in the Monet’s place, is washed clean by the sprinklers to reveal the real Monet.<\/p>\n

Crown’s game is made clear: upon stealing the Monet, Crown had Anna forge the Pissarro over it and \u00ab\u00a0returned\u00a0\u00bb it to the museum. However, Crown has now vanished with another painting\u2014one that Banning had told him she would have selected over the Monet. With the Monet recovered, Banning considers her role in the case concluded; the second missing painting is not covered by her employer.<\/p>\n

McCann briefly stops Banning to press her for anything she might know, but admits he has since stopped caring whether or not they catch Crown and bids her farewell. Banning then races to meet Crown at the rendezvous, but finds only a bowler-hatted courier who delivers to her the newly-stolen painting.<\/p>\n

Devastated, Banning has the painting sent to McCann and boards a flight back to London. In her seat after takeoff, she begins to cry when a hand from the row behind extends to her a handkerchief and offers her comfort.<\/p>\n

Recognizing the passenger’s thinly-disguised voice, she turns to find Crown sitting behind her, and the two are reunited<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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