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Once a Thief(Movie, 1996)

1h 36min | Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Once a ThiefRating: 2.2/5 (with 77 votes)
Once a Thief is a 1996 Canadian action comedy television film directed by John Woo. A remake of Woo’s 1991 film of the same name, it served as a backdoor pilot for a 1997-98 CTV series also of the same name. It stars Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei and Nicholas Lea. The film premiered on September 29, 1996. It was originally produced for the American Fox Network and was hoped to be the beginning of a weekly series, but Fox passed on it, and the series aired instead on CTV. ()
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About Once a Thief

Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 12 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/29/1996
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"John Woo's Die Unfassbaren"
"Με την Κάλυψη του Νόμου"
"Zbrodnicze tradycje"

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Other movies with this title: Once a Thief (GB, 1935), Once a Thief (US, 1950), Once a Thief (FR/US, 1965), Once a Thief (HK, 1991)

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