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  • Crime, Documentary

THE THIEF COLLECTOR

  • 2023
  • 1 HR, 37 min
  • MAY 26 → JUN 8
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Released May 12, 2023, United States
Documentary, Crime
1 hour, 37 minutes
FilmRise
None
Starring
  • Eric Banks
  • Hailee Cruzen
  • Tony Eckstat
  • Glenn Howerton
  • Katelyn Martinez
  • Sarah Minnich
Director

Allison Otto

Film Information

A captivating crime documentary about the heist one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, a1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” which was brazenly cut from its frame while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works but a very unconventional method of collecting them.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Eric Banks
Hailee Cruzen
Tony Eckstat
Glenn Howerton
Katelyn Martinez
Sarah Minnich
Additional Credits
Allison Otto Director
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Reviews

“[ THE THIEF COLLECTOR is] A movie that has used art to touch something essential about how strangers — or maybe I should just say the downright strange — walk among us.”

Owen Gleiberman
Variety

“Allison Otto’s snappy documentary The Thief Collector ponders how and why the Alters got away with their one famous crime — and perhaps many more.”

Noel Murray
Los Angeles Times

“This entertaining documentary looks at how teachers Rita and Jerry Alter walked into a museum and left with a rolled-up Willem de Kooning now worth $160m.”

Cath Clark
The Guardian

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