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Feb 17, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: February 17, 1984 Crackers Premiered in Theaters.

On this day, February 17, 1984, Crackers premiered in theaters. Directed by Louis Malle, the crime-comedy featured an ensemble cast including Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, and a young Sean Penn. The film was a loose remake of the 1958 Italian heist comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street, shifting the setting to San Francisco while retaining the original’s mix of humor and misfit criminals attempting an elaborate burglary.

The story followed a group of bumbling thieves plotting to...

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