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Plot summary
Thieves slip into the Metropolitan Museum of Art hidden inside a Trojan horse, aiming to empty a gallery of paintings, and are caught. In the confusion, billionaire Thomas Crown, the robbery's secret mastermind, takes Claude Monet's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. Detective Michael McCann leads the NYPD investigation into the missing artwork, with the unwelcome help of Catherine Banning, an insurance investigator. Crown lends the museum a Camille Pissarro to hang where the Monet was, and Banning turns her attention to him. She argues that he steals for the thrill rather than for money, and persuades McCann to put Crown under surveillance. She agrees to have dinner with him.
Cast
- Esther Cañadasas Anna Knudsen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director John McTiernan wrote a script for a Thomas Crown sequel, titled Thomas Crown and the Missing Lioness, while serving a one-year prison term on multiple felony convictions, revealing the project two months after his release in 2014.
- Director John McTiernan felt contemporary audiences would be less forgiving of Thomas Crown if he staged two armed bank robberies for fun, as Steve McQueen did in the original, so he wrote an unarmed art heist instead, based on the Trojan horse theme and a technical failure of thermal cameras.
- The production wanted to film inside the actual Metropolitan Museum of Art, but the museum turned the request down, so the crew built its own full replica museum on a soundstage and hired artisans to make the set look authentic.
- The most obvious nod to the original is the casting of Faye Dunaway as Crown's psychiatrist: Dunaway had portrayed the insurance investigator, Vicki Anderson, in the earlier version of the story.
- The glider seen in the film was actually flown by Thomas L. Knauff, a world record holder and a member of the US Soaring Hall of Fame.
- When the film aired on the TBS network, editors had to digitally delete the Pepsi One logo visible on the can Catherine Banning drinks from in one scene.
