After
a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing
a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment — and he even
gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones, best known for
her very sexy role in The Mask Of Zorro. When a priceless Rembrandt painting
is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a daring and technically
sophisticated robbery, ace insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker
(Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins looking into the matter and is soon convinced
it's the work of master art thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery). Gin
thinks the best way to get the goods on Mac (and perhaps recover the
painting) is to work her way inside his operation, so she locates him in
London and, posing as a fellow art thief, offers to work as his partner.
While Mac is smart enough to not accept an offer like that from just anyone,
most thieves don't look as good as Gin does in a leotard, and she soon
proves an able assistant in a shakedown robbery where they pinch a rare
Chinese mask from a British museum. After this success, Mac agrees to join
forces with Gin for what is literally the heist of the millenium — as
Midnight rolls around in Kuala Lumpur on December 31, 1999, the security
computers in a major multinational banking facility will be breached for a
split second as the computers roll over to a new program for Y2K. Is that
long enough for Gin and Mac to nab $8 billion in bank transfers? Is 14 days
long enough to prepare for a robbery of this scale? And will Mac and Gin's
professional relationship pave the way for some capers in the bedroom? In
addition to playing the male lead, Sean Connery also co-produced this film;
the supporting cast includes Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin.| Sean Connery | Robert MacDougal |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | Gin Baker |
| Ving Rhames | Thibadeaux |
| Will Patton | Cruz |
| Maury Chaykin | Conrad Greene |
Genre/Type - Crime, Caper, Crime Thriller
Produced by - Fountainbridge Films / New Regency Pictures
Release - Apr 30, 1999 (USA)
Released by - 20th Century Fox
Running time - 113 min.
Jekyll Island (1998, Ken Depuis, Ken Dupuis)
Once a Thief (1996, John Woo)
Rough Cut (1980, Don Siegel)
The Happy Thieves (1962, George Marshall)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Norman Jewison)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999, John McTiernan)