#crime-caper

#crime-caper

Marty is already an international ping-pong star, but ping-pong doesn't pay the bills, so meanwhile he lives rent-free with his mother (Fran Drescher) and Uncle Murray (Larry Sloman), slings wingtips, and has an affair with the married Rachel. He's slated to compete in the 1952 British Open, but Murray owes him $700 in pay that will get him to London.

At first blush, Darren Aronofsky seems like the least-likely candidate for something like Caught Stealing. Sony's new crime caper, adapted from Charlie Huston's 2004 novel of the same name, was positioned as a spicy- if razor-edged - late-summer romp, leaning heavier on the central romance between its red-hot stars than on the dark action that threatens to tear them apart. It felt like the latest offering from Edgar Wright or Guy Ritchie, not the guy who gave us Black Swanand Requiem for a Dream.