PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which premiered Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, updates the heist gone wrong genre while crafting an effective crime thriller.
Harry (John Turturro) roams the streets and subways of New York picking pockets. It's getting harder because people don't carry cash, and even gadgets track location so they're hard to fence, or resell through buyers of stolen goods.
When he breaks into Dylan's (Will Price) car, with a very neat penny trick, he obtains a flash drive that brings him more trouble. Dylan finds him and demands it back, so Harry must traverse the New York fence circuit to locate it.
Writer/director Noah Segan invites the viewer into this underground world smoothly. The opening titles focus on a businessman (John Gallagher Jr.) who doesn't notice his wallet missing until he picks up the tab at lunch.
The code of thieves and fences is fascinating. Harry never speaks directly. The flash drive may have found its way to a shop, never "you have the flash drive."
