Crackers
“The Comedy that dreams the impossible scheme!”
1984 · 1 h 31 min
Louis MalleCast
Donald Sutherland 
Jack Warden 
Sean Penn 
Wallace Shawn 
Larry Riley Trinidad Silva
Credits
Written by: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
Plot
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a pawnshop, and joins a heist plot with a gang.
Sinekatalog’s take
Louis Malle's comedy, with Donald Sutherland and Jack Warden, is a loose American remake of Big Deal on Madonna Street and slight.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.2 / 10 (1,696 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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