FAYE DUNAWAY plays Crown's psychiatrist who appears in a few brief scenes.DENIS LEARY plays the local police detective who doesn't approve of Catherine's investigatory methods and occasionally uses strong profanity.RENEE RUSSO plays an initially aloof insurance investigator who will do whatever it takes - including sleeping with the suspect and breaking into the billionaire's home - to prove that Crown stole the artwork.Along the way he has sex with Catherine while eluding her queries about whether he really stole the Monet. PIERCE BROSNAN plays a billionaire playboy who steals a valuable painting not because of its worth, but due to the challenge of doing so.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For some sexuality and language. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Older teens and those who are fans of someone in the cast might want to, but it's doubtful this film will be high on most other kids "must see" lists. While he mischievously denies any wrongdoing, from that point on a cat and mouse chess game ensues where the formidable opponents - who both enjoy this new challenge and the fact that sparks are flying between them - try to outsmart the other. Soon thereafter, she directly asks what he's done with the valuable painting. When beautiful but aloof insurance investigator Catherine Banning (RENEE RUSSO) shows up, however, she quickly deducts that Crown is the culprit due to him being a witness to the crime and his past track record of high bids at prior Monet auctions. Detectives Michael McCann (DENIS LEARY) and Paretti (FRANKIE FAISON) then respond to the case and believe that an accomplice to the captured thieves must have escaped with the painting. Thus, after several high-tech thieves have their attempted art heist at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art thwarted, Crown casually walks in, steals a Monet valued at $100 million and then just as casually leaves. While he's unable to connect with any one woman in a romantic sense due to his lack of trust - a fact he discusses with his psychiatrist (FAYE DUNAWAY) - his ability to close any business deal for a huge profit has left him hungry for another conquest. ![]() PLOT: Thomas Crown (PIERCE BROSNAN) is a forty-two-year-old self-made billionaire who's run out of challenges. ![]() QUICK TAKE: Drama: After a valuable piece of artwork is stolen from a museum, a savvy and glamorous insurance investigator tries to prove that a billionaire playboy has stolen it.
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