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Language. English [1] Budget. $25 million. Thick as Thieves (also known as The Code) is a 2009 American/German heist action thriller film directed by Mimi Leder, starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, and Radha Mitchell. [2] The film was released direct-to-DVD on April 17, 2009 in the United States and on October 18, 2010 in Germany.
It gave an aggregate score of 50 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews as positive or negative, surveyed 72 critics and assessed 53 reviews as negative and 19 as positive, for a 26% approval rating. The average rating calculated was 4.8 out of 10.
Plot. By 2017, the United States has become a totalitarian police state following a worldwide economic collapse. The government pacifies the populace through violent TV shows: its most popular is The Running Man, a broadcast game show, where criminals fight for their lives as "runners", fleeing from armed mercenaries called "stalkers", to earn a government pardon and tropical vacation.
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press 1999. ISBN 0-231-11094-4. Jacobs, Lea. The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1997 ISBN 0-520-20790-4. Jeff, Leonard L, & Simmons, Jerold L.
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly in press ...
Lisa Kennedy of the Denver Post also offered the film a positive review. The film holds a critical score of 100% on the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Due to good word of mouth among audiences, the film was frequently viewed many times upon its release.
The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name.The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno and Paul Bettany.
Hays Code. The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...