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Breaking In

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Reaching retirement age, professional burglar Ernie Mullins (Burt Reynolds) is ready to call it quits, but only after he pulls one last job. When he breaks into what should be his final home, he comes across the young and directionless intruder Mike (Casey Siemaszko). Identifying some latent, untapped talent in the kid, Mullins decides to put retirement on hold and take the precocious housebreaker under his wing, teaching the inexperienced criminal the tricks of the trade.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
3/4
Breaking In has been billed as a comeback for Reynolds, but maybe it's simply a well-written, well-directed picture. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 06/22/2022
A type of comedy about larceny so elusive, so quiet that it seems to dissolve…sleepwalking from one scene to the next. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Peter Bowen OutWeek 05/19/2020
Written by John Sayles and directed by the Scottish director, Bill Forsyth, the film works at certain levels by combining Sayles' local American realism with Forsyth's rather quirky sense of humor. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/09/2013
A
Delightfully charming low-key funny mismatched buddy crime caper pic. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/06/2005
3/5
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette 02/08/2004
4/5
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jon c 10/16/2019 this is another one of the late Burt Reynolds' best works from back in the day he plays a cat burglar, Ernie reaching the end of his prime, when he runs into a younger thief, Mike he decides to teach him the ropes the thing is he has a strict system in place; no personal spending when robbing the money, no personal connections to the job, no unemployment otherwise you have too much extra cash lying around as you'd expect Mike wants to learn from the best smuggling as much money from one job to the next but he gets caught up in his own misguided ways everything from buying a car to hookers to having a fancy apartment has Mike reconsider the whole profession not a lot of laughs in this caper but Reynolds has such a quirky quality to him it's a throwback to his start as an actor, he's still got it we're only as good as the job allows us to be, more people ruin their careers because of their bad habits, being a newbie to the game is one thing being a professional afterwards is another a relaxing little flick that shows us the next generation can slowly pick up from the one before even though it takes time to fully master and craft those skills See more 09/23/2014 Solid movie, could have used a better lead, Casey Siemaszko is just sort of strange and not very good. Otherwise pretty enjoyable. See more 02/23/2013 Burt Reynolds was good, not his usual style, that's about it. The young guy who was in it more than Burt was so uninteresting, I almost turned off the film after half an hour, it's obviously meant to be his film, not Burt's, unfortunately he sucks at acting and the film fails to be entertaining because of that. Avoid at all costs. See more 11/23/2012 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Well-acted and entertaining. See more 11/14/2012 A fun caper movie. (Watch for a Harry Carey jr cameo) See more 08/12/2010 Low-key in a good way, but it's not terribly memorable. It does have one of the best bad poetry jokes I've heard in a while, though. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Reaching retirement age, professional burglar Ernie Mullins (Burt Reynolds) is ready to call it quits, but only after he pulls one last job. When he breaks into what should be his final home, he comes across the young and directionless intruder Mike (Casey Siemaszko). Identifying some latent, untapped talent in the kid, Mullins decides to put retirement on hold and take the precocious housebreaker under his wing, teaching the inexperienced criminal the tricks of the trade.
Director
Bill Forsyth
Producer
Henry Gittes
Screenwriter
John Sayles
Production Co
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 19, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.8M
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Surround