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The Sting
hen a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss...
28 January 1924, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 December 1923, Schenectady, New York, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1927, Ferndale, Michigan, USA
5 May 1902, Slezka Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
April 7, 1918 in Utah, USA
6 September 1904, Bari, Puglia, Italy
18 November 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
9 August 1927, Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
17 February 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 01, 2015
The Sting remains the definitive con artist comedy: as irresistible and ingenious as the scheme that hooks in Doyle.February 12, 2014
The sting itself is as audacious as it is elaborate, but the real pleasure comes from the chemistry between the two leads, the lovingly created 1930s settings and Marvin Hamlisch's inspired reworking of Scott Joplin's music.February 19, 2008
Extremely handsome production values and a great supporting cast round out the virtues.February 20, 2013
A masterfully smooth grift that's built on golden-age savvy but never feels like a rose-tinted throwback.June 24, 2006
The film ends up relying on different chapter headings to explain what's going on, but it's all very professional, with fine attention to period detail.October 01, 2008
Newman and Redford pass a few facial expressions between them and try to cool each other out. If there ever was much of a script, it can be said to have gone to waste.May 09, 2005
The film is so good-natured, so obviously aware of everything it's up to, even its own picturesque frauds, that I opt to go along with it.December 13, 2006
Top-notch entertainment.November 16, 2014
Redford and Newman provide the real sting.February 27, 2015
As for Newman and Redford, they have developed a form of instant communication. Words are not as important as they way they look at each other. Call it as snow job or call it acting, it is very pleasing to watch.March 03, 2013
A perfectly calibrated machine designed to be as entertaining as possible in as many ways as possible.