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  • 1992
  • PG
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1992
  • PG
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, they panic and become fugitives. Other victims of misfortune also become suspects, as the plot twists and luck and judgment desert everyone.

Directed By: Eugene Levy

Written By: Rodolfo Sonego, Giorgio Arlorio, Stefano Strucchi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, Steve Kluger

  • 1992
  • PG
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1992
  • PG
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 34 m

Once Upon a Crime...

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, they panic and become fugitives. Other victims of misfortune also become suspects, as the plot twists and luck and judgment desert everyone.

Directed By: Eugene Levy

Written By: Rodolfo Sonego, Giorgio Arlorio, Stefano Strucchi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, Steve Kluger

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Though it doesn't really work, there are enjoyable things about it.
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Once Upon a Crime could have been a boisterous slapstick comedy, but writing and direction reduce it to the status of the very ordinary. [12 March 1992, p.3E]
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SCTV alum Eugene Levy makes his feature-film directing debut with a film that, ironically, would have provided ample fodder for a Second City spoof as a group of US stars chews its way through Italy and France in search of a movie.
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Once Upon a Crime is not grand larceny, but not good enough to qualify for much more than rental viewing. [10 March 1992, p.27]
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Take away Once Upon a Crime's star-studded cast and sunny Monte Carlo vistas and what you have left is a dachshund in a green plaid vest. An apt image: The movie is a real dog. [12 March 1992, p.F5]
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Eugene Levy should be stopped before he directs again. [9 March 1992, p.4D]
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Levy can't seem to tell if something is funny or not and keeps up the sledgehammer intensity throughout every scene, comic subtlety and timing abandoned in a desperate attempt for laughs--even pained ones.
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Production Company Ascot Film, Dino De Laurentiis Company
Release Date Mar 6, 1992
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG
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Tagline The Who's Who of Who-Dunnits.
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