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* UnderStrangeManagement: A group of criminals rent TheConvenientStoreNextDoor to a bank, and run a cookie shop as a front while they try to tunnel into the vault. While the tunneling operation is a failure, the cookies are an unexpected hit, and the gang tries to make a career of it. Amusingly, a career arsonist ends up as the fire safety inspector.
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While the plot shares some similarities with Creator/SJPerelman's play ''The Night Before Christmas'' (itself adapted to the screen as the 1942 Creator/EdwardGRobinson comedy ''Larceny, Inc.''), in true Woody Allen style this film is less about the heist itself and more about how Ray and Frenchy's relationship progresses in the face of their newfound wealth and status.
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While the plot shares some similarities with Creator/SJPerelman's play ''The Night Before Christmas'' (itself adapted to the screen as the 1942 Creator/EdwardGRobinson comedy ''Larceny, Inc.''), '' with Creator/EdwardGRobinson), in true Woody Allen style this film is less about the heist itself and more about how Ray and Frenchy's relationship progresses in the face of their newfound wealth and status.
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One of Creator/WoodyAllen's zanier latter-day films, the 2000 comedy ''Small Time Crooks'' follows a former criminal named Ray (Allen) and his wife, Frenchy (Creator/TraceyUllman), poor but happy in their UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity apartment. Ray hatches an elaborate scheme: Rob a bank by buying the building next door and tunneling under it. To explain their presence, Ray has Frenchy set up a cookie shop as a front. Two days later, the tunneling is getting nowhere, but the cookie shop is a huge success! True to Woody Allen style, this movie is more about how Ray and Frenchy's relationship progresses in the face of their new success and wealth.
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One of Creator/WoodyAllen's zanier latter-day films, the 2000 comedy ''Small Time Crooks'' follows a former criminal named Ray (Allen) and his wife, Frenchy (Creator/TraceyUllman), poor but happy in their UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity apartment. Ray hatches an elaborate scheme: Rob a bank by buying the building next door and tunneling under it. To explain their presence, Ray has Frenchy set up a cookie shop as a front. Two days later, the tunneling is getting nowhere, but the cookie shop is a huge success! success!
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Tommy becomes the company's chairman of the board, but doesn't do anything more important than hiring a plumber to fix the office building's toilets.
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** When Ray and May try to steal a socialite's necklace, they mix up the real one and the copy they plan to replace it with. Ray says that they can't take both necklaces because they've been seen acting suspiciously in close vicinity to the safe and will be the prime suspects if the necklace just disappeared.
** Denny, a man who thinks ''Ray'' is a genius, is made head of advertising for the cookie company and focuses on putting ads in his favorite pornographic magazines, claiming that it will make readers associate the lust they feel with the cookies. Judging by how successful the company becomes, this idea seems to be working.
** When Ray and May try to steal a socialite's necklace, they mix up the real one and the copy they plan to replace it with. Ray says that they can't take both necklaces because they've been seen acting suspiciously in close vicinity to the safe and will be the prime suspects if the necklace just disappeared.
** Denny, a man who thinks ''Ray'' is a genius, is made head of advertising for the cookie company and focuses on putting ads in his favorite pornographic magazines, claiming that it will make readers associate the lust they feel with the cookies. Judging by how successful the company becomes, this idea seems to be working.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: Ken, a cop who buys cookies from the store, figures out the gang's robbery scheme and catches them in the act of tunneling into the wrong building. He lets them go once they promise to stick to the cookie business [[BuyThemOff and offer him a cut of it.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Denny, Benny, Tommy, and Ken all get jobs with the cookie company after the FakeRealTurn, but disappear after a couple of scenes, and it isn't shown what happens to them [[spoiler:after the company goes bankrupt.]]
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* WhereItAllBegan: Ray and Frenchy end up from where they started from, but with a new appreciation for each other.
