Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/05/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Italian
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
Mario Monicelli's classic
crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (
I Soliti Ignoti) features
Vittorio Gassman and
Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a neighboring business and drilling their way inside. In addition to each of the burglars struggling with individual personal problems, the group must reassess their plans after they find themselves not in the store, but a different room of the apartment from which they started.
Big Deal on Madonna Street is a spoof of
Jules Dassin's
caper classic
Rififi.
~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide