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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781594472114
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1594472114
Label: Showtime Ent.
Manufacturer: Showtime Ent.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Showtime Ent.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 19998
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
A poignant tale of a family in crisis. Dad has suffered a stroke, and Mom’s job as an English teacher barely pays the rent, especially with the added burden of three children. Her will to survive is palpable as she struggles with an unforgiving medical system and copes with a child teetering on adolescence.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Good movie
This is a well written movie that was shot in one of my homes of New York City. It was well acted even with the children actors who in most cases this was their first film. It also has Mary Louise Parker who is a very good actress that is sometimes under rated but in this movie you can see her talent.
Rating: - Parker Shines Again
The Best Thief in the World is a character study on how a parent and her young son cope with life. In a sense, Mary-Louise Parker's character, Sue, a teacher with a salty vocabulary, is a single parent.As the film opens, her husband has suffered a debilitating stroke. Consequently, she struggles with the demands and stressors of her career, parenting, the relationship with her mother and care giving skills, not unlike her character on the Showtime series, Weeds. Tough decision need to be made with ... Read More
Rating:  - Far, Far Below 'Showtime Entertainment' Quality
To put it bluntly, this movie is so far below the usual quality of Showtime movies dealing with kids it should have been left on the cutting room floor. First, every so often up pops two preschool, foul-mouth rappers that seem to just intrude into the very thin story - they don't even seem to be characters in the yarn, just in-your-face intruders. Second, little Izzy not only breaks into apartments, but is held in high esteem by the neighborhood kids for doing it. Finally, when Issy tried to confess ... Read More
Rating:  - incredible story
What an incredibly true to life story The Best Thief In The World is! This drama is what more movies about families in crisis should be. You certainly won't find any others to match its' ability of displaying what life in desperate situations is truly like. With a dad incapacitated due to a stroke, a mom trying to make ends meet and hope that it will all come together and a bad neighborhood filled with kids growing up in city poverty condidtions, what's a tween to do? Young Izzy breaks into others' apartments ... Read More
Rating: - Painful to watch this Powerful little Film - But Worth It!
Jacob Kornbluth has written and directed this explosive little film with such finesse that the multiple messages of life in the ghetto, the power of the need for family, the introspective view of children caught in the fault lines of life, and the incomprehensible difficulties of mere survival in a world of chaos are all delivered with conviction and power. This is a very fine little Indie film that deserves a wide audience.
The Zaidmans are a family of five living in a tenement building in New York ... Read More
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