The Thomas Crown Affair
Original theatrical poster
Directed by	John McTiernan
Produced by	Michael Tadross Pierce Brosnan Beau St. Clair
Written by	Alan Trustman Leslie Dixon Kurt Wimmer
Starring	Pierce Brosnan Rene Russo Denis Leary
Music by	Bill Conti
Cinematography	Tom Priestly
Editing by	John Wright
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	August 6, 1999 (US) August 20, 1999 (UK)
Running time	113 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$48,000,000
Followed by	The Thomas Crown Affair 2
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The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 heist film, a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. It stars Pierce Brosnan in the title role, a self-made billionaire who steals a painting and is tracked by an insurance investigator played by Rene Russo. The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... Alan Trustman (born December 16, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American screenwriter and author. ... Leslie Dixon is a Hollywood screenwriter. ... Kurt Wimmer is an American screenwriter and film director. ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... Rene Russo Rene Russo (born February 17, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA) is an American film actress and model. ... Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John Wright is an ACE-certified film editor. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ... A heist film is a movie that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something. ... In film, a remake is a newer version of a previously released film or a newer version of the source (play, novel, story, etc. ... The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... Rene Russo Rene Russo (born February 17, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA) is an American film actress and model. ...

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The success of the film prompted a sequel to be planned for release in 2009 titled The Topkapi Affair, which is also a remake—of the 1964 film Topkapi starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, and Peter Ustinov. Both films are based on Eric Ambler's 1962 novel, The Light of Day.^[2] The Topkapi Affair is an upcoming film based on Eric Amblers novel The Light of Day and its film adaptation Topkapi. ... // Events January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove is released. ... Topkapi is a 1964 heist film made by Filmways Pictures and distributed by United Artists. ... Melina Mercouri (Μελίνα Μερκούρη, born Maria Amalia Mercouri) (Athens, Greece, October 18, 1920 – New York City, March 6, 1994) was a famous Greek actress, singer, and political activist. ... Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian actor who has appeared in over 92 film/television roles. ... Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (IPA: ; April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. ... Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. ... The Light of Day can refer to: a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler (filmed as Topkapi); or a 2003 novel by Graham Swift. ...

Cast

• Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown
• Rene Russo as Catherine Olds Banning
• Denis Leary as Detective Michael McCann
• Fritz Weaver as John Reynolds
• Frankie Faison as Detective Paretti
• Ben Gazzara as Andrew Wallace
• Mark Margolis as Heinrich Knutzhorn
• Esther Cañadas as Anna Knutzhorn
• Faye Dunaway as The Psychiatrist

Faye Dunaway played the Catherine Banning role in the 1968 original.^[3] However, the character's name was Vicki Anderson. Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... Rene Russo Rene Russo (born February 17, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA) is an American film actress and model. ... Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. ... Fritz Weaver on The Twilight Zone Fritz Weaver is a prolific American actor and voice actor. ... Frankie Faison, often credited as Frankie R. Faison is one of those actors which many people may recognise, but not know his name. ... Ben Gazzara (born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930, in New York City) is an American actor in television and motion pictures. ... Mark Margolis (born 1939 in Pennsylvania) is an Greek-American actor, who has been making movies since 1976. ... Esther Cañadas (born on March 1, 1977 in Alicante, Costa Blanca) is a Spanish actress and supermodel. ... Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 movie starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. ...

Plot

Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), a self-made billionaire, is an adventurous businessman who savors a good challenge. Among other diversions, he crashes an expensive sailing catamaran while racing and bets one hundred thousand dollars on a golf swing simply because "it's a beautiful Saturday morning," and there is not much else to do. Crown steals a painting (San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk) by Monet valued at one hundred million dollars. The insurers of the artwork send insurance investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) to assist the police in solving the crime. From the beginning, Banning suspects Crown is behind the theft. The elaborate game of cat-and-mouse that ensues gives Crown exactly what he was seeking, in the form of Banning: "A worthy adversary." Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908) by Claude Monet San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908. ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Rene Russo Rene Russo (born February 17, 1954 in Burbank, California, USA) is an American film actress and model. ...

Soundtrack

The critically acclaimed soundtrack was composed by Bill Conti and arranged by Jack Eskew. It features a variety of jazz arrangements which harken back to the film's original version. In addition, the film ends with a reprise of the Academy Award-winning song "Windmills of Your Mind" sung by Sting. Throughout the movie, segments are used of a song by Nina Simone called "Sinnerman" (from the album Pastel Blues, 1965). Mostly the non-vocal parts are used (hand-clapping and piano riffs), but in the final scenes, where Crown returns to the scene of the crime, Simone sings "Oh sinnerman, where are you gonna run to?" To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jack Eskew (Jackson Whiteside Eskew) (born June 29, 1940) is a musical orchestrator based in Los Angeles, California. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with words & music by Alan, Marilyn Bergman, & Michel Legrand and performed by Noel Harrison for the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. ... Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), universally known by his stage name Sting, is an Academy Award-nominated sixteen time Grammy-winning English musician from Wallsend in North Tyneside. ... Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (IPA: ninɐ sʌmɞnɑ) (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. ... Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist and activist. ... Pastel Blues is a studio album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003). ...

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Track listing

1. Windmills of Your Mind - Sting
2. Sinnerman - Nina Simone
3. Everything (...Is Never Quite Enough) - Wasis Diop
4. Caban La Ka Kratchie - Georges Fordant
5. Black and White
6. Never Change
7. Meet Ms. Banning
8. Goodnight/Breaking and Entering
9. Glider pt. I
10. Glider pt. II
11. Cocktails
12. Quick Exit

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Reception

The film made $69,305,181 at the U.S. box office and a further $55,000,000 in the rest of the world, making a combined box office total of $124,305,181. With a budget of $48,000,000, the film was a financial success. A sequel, 'The Topkapi Affair' also known as 'The Thomas Crown Affair 2', is due to be released sometime in 2009.

Production

At first, director John McTiernan was unavailable for the project. Pierce Brosnan and his fellow producers considered several directors before returning to their original choice.^[4] McTiernan then received the script and added his own ideas to the production.^[5] Filming took place throughout New York City, including Central Park. The corporate headquarters of Lucent Technologies stood in for Crown's suite of offices. Due to it being nearly impossible to film interior scenes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the producers' request was "respectfully declined"),^[3] the production crew made their own museum on a soundstage. Artisans were hired to create a realistic look to the set.^[6] Another scene was filmed in an entirely different city landmark: the main research library of the New York Public Library. John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. ... Pierce Brendan Brosnan,The most gorgeous man on the planet OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres, 3. ... On September 30, 1996, AT&T spun off its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City. ... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of Americas most significant research libraries. ...

The glider scenes were shot at Ridge Soaring Gliderport and Eagle Field in Pennsylvania and at Corning-Painted Post Airport in New York. The two glider aero-tow shots were actually taken from film shot at different airports with different tow planes. The glider pilot was Thomas L. Knauff, a world record holder,^[7] and a member of the US Soaring Hall of Fame. ^[8]The glider used is a Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus. It is physically impossible to reach the front controls from the rear seat of any tandem two seater. Instead the instructor in the rear seat demonstrates to the pupil by using dual controls. Just undoing the straps would be hazardous; the pilot could be ejected by turbulence through the canopy. The rear instrument panel was removed in order to film the scene in the studio.^{[citation needed]} An immature Bald Eagle thermals over the Ridge Soaring Gliderport in a lake effect rain shower durning the fall migration. ... Thomas L. Knauff (born 1938) is an American author, glider pilot, flight instructor, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Pilot Examiner, and a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame. ... The Soaring Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have made the highest achievements in, or contributions to, the sport of soaring in the United States of America. ... The Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus is a high performance two seat glider primarily designed for fast cross-country flying including gliding competitions. ...

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Popular culture references

Several references are made to the 1968 version of the film. One comes through the use of the song "The Windmills of Your Mind", popularized by the earlier film. A second reference comes through the casting of Faye Dunaway as Crown's psychiatrist; in 1968, Dunaway played Catherine Banning's counterpart, insurance investigator Vicki Anderson. The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with words & music by Alan, Marilyn Bergman, & Michel Legrand and performed by Noel Harrison for the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. ... Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...

Another cultural reference in the film features the 1964 painting The Son of Man by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It first appears when Crown and Banning tour the museum together and she remarks on it as a likeness of him. In the movie's climax, Crown plays on her expectations, dressing himself and his look-alikes as "faceless businessmen" in topcoats, derby hats, and briefcases carrying copies of the painting. René Magritte. ... The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images) (1928–1929) René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. ...

In a reference back to the Thomas Crown films, Timbaland refers to the main character Thomas Crown in Nelly Furtado's single "Promiscuous" and in Justin Timberlake's song "Chop Me Up". For other uses, see Timberland. ... Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and instrumentalist, who also holds a Portuguese citizenship. ... Timbaland singles chronology Who Is She 2 U (2005) Promiscuous (2006) Wait a Minute (2006) Audio sample Info (help· info) Promiscuous, also referred to as Promiscuous Girl,[1] is a pop/R&B song recorded by Nelly Furtado and Timbaland for Furtados third album, Loose (2006). ... Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. ... Chop Me Up is a 2006 Hip Hop/R&B song from Justin Timberlakes sophomore album, FutureSex/LoveSounds. ...

References

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External links

• The Thomas Crown Affair at the Internet Movie Database
• The Thomas Crown Affair at Allmovie
• Paul Verhoeven to direct 'The Thomas Crown Affair 2' at Spero News