Skills Like This

When a failed writer discovers his previously untapped talent for larceny, his own life and the lives of his two best friends are turned upside down in a felonious comedy from director Monty Miranda. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie ...more

Inept criminals pop up fairly often in comedies, and not without reason -- most comedy is dependent on something going wrong, and the sizable majority of crooks trip themselves up somewhere, otherwise we'd never know they were crooks. First-time director Monty Miranda flips this concept in his film Skills Like This, a quirky little comedy about a guy who discovers he's a pretty good criminal...and pretty lousy at nearly everything else. As Skills Like This opens, we witness the opening (and ...more