Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York looks like a small crime thriller about a stolen USB stick. It is a quiet farewell to a vanishing kind of criminals: the pickpocketers. John Turturro plays Harry Lehman, a career thief who can barely use a phone, in a city where nobody carries cash anymore. The movie focuses on his latest pickpocketing that goes different than he expected.
The Only Living Pickpocket In New York: Plot Summary
Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket in a city that has stopped carrying cash. He fences his meager hauls through Ben, a pawnbroker, to pay for the care of his catatonic wife, Rosie. One night he breaks into a vintage muscle car and takes a duffel bag. He dumps the gun inside but keeps the cash, a luxury watch, and a USB card he doesn’t understand. Ben can’t read it either, so Harry sells it to a fence in Chinatown.
The card holds a cryptocurrency fortune, and it belongs to Dylan, a mob heir. Dylan traces Harry through street cameras, wrecks Ben’s pawnshop, and threatens Rosie in Harry’s apartment. Harry has a few hours to get the card back. He races across the city and steals it back in Brooklyn with a distraction. Along the way he meets his old adversary Detective Warren, coaches a young pickpocket, and visits his estranged daughter Kelly.
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