Movies and TvShows featuring "picking-pockets" theme.
The Emersons are a theatrical family, of sorts - one son Samuel,17, is a street performer who recites Shakespeare while his brother Beckett, 19, picks pockets in the crowd. Their father Warrn, a has-been thespian, spends the take on booze and ponies. But Samuel wants to make like his comic book hero 'The Cardinal Comet' and split. And a visit from a murderous loan shark gives Samuel a chance at freedom -- but at a high price...
DirectorsAntonia Bogdanovich
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Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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