Movie Matinee - Thomas Crown Affair

This week's Senior Center movie is "Thomas Crown Affair."

When a priceless Monet painting is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the police find themselves wondering which world-class art thief pulled the job. What they don't know is that the thief wasn't a professional, but an amateur.

Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) was born poor but made his way through Oxford on a boxing scholarship. With his sharp sense for business and ruthless ambition, Crown has become a self-made billionaire; but despite his wealth and power, he still seeks new challenges, and he steals art not for the profits but for the sheer excitement.

Investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) is brought in to track down the culprit, but despite police detective Michael McCann’s (Denis Leary) warning against getting too close to Crown, she finds herself falling for the suave thief.