1977 · comedy · action · road-movie
Grand Theft Auto
Directed by Ron Howard1h 24m1977
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
Our read: Grand Theft Auto (1977) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action · road-movie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
Watching Grand Theft Auto tonight? Spin for your lens.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Grand Theft Auto feels to watch.
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“You want a silly 70s B-movie car chase comedy full of crashes and stunts.”
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