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Winner of seven Academy Awards®, The Sting is an intricate comedy caper about a small-time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seek revenge on a crime lord. (PG, 129 min.)
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An ambitious young con man teams up with a veteran of the game to settle a murderous score with a ruthless crime lord who murdered their friend. The resourceful duo must improvise when things don’t go accordingly. [Mubi]
Starring: Charles Durning, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Drama
"Top-notch entertainment."
— Don Druker, Chicago Reader
"Magnificent, timeless stuff."
— Will Lawrence, Empire Magazine
"There is just no way not to love this movie."
— Susan Stark, Detroit Free Press
"The Sting is a charmer, no doubt about that."
— Tom Milne, Sight & Sound
"One of the most enduring and exquisitely crafted blockbusters of all time."
— Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
"A 'movie' movie that has obviously been made with loving care each and every step of the way."
— Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
"The Sting remains the definitive con artist comedy: as irresistible and ingenious as the scheme that hooks in Doyle."
— Patrick Smith, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"It's a joy to look at and has that rarest of present-day ingredients, Hill's hallmark -- taste. What glitters here is pure movie gold."
— Judith Crist, New York Magazine/Vulture
"Here are all the good old-fashioned film virtues standing up to the test of storytelling in a movie that is constantly whetting your curiosity to know -- 'What happens next?'"
— Alexander Walker, London Evening Standard
"Hill's stylish, old-fashioned film, complete with Norman Rockwell- style sketches which open up into well-detailed scenes of Chicago in the good-bad old days, is always pleasant and absorbing."
— G.J. Fleming, Orlando Sentinel
"[The Sting] is an unalloyed delight, the kind of pure entertainment film that's all the more welcome for having become such a rarity. What's more, it's a triumph of quality Hollywood craftsmanship."
— Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"The combination of Paul Newman and Robert Redford adds real magic to the magical world of the motion picture, and these two fine actors never have been better than in The Sting, a brilliant ornament in the holiday film season."
— Joe Pollack, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
