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From the highly acclaimed director of Midnight Express and The Commitments comes a sparkling story of a pickpocket's odyssey through America. During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, seven-year-old Thomas Moran finds himself accidentally embarking on a career in pick-pocketing... Read Full Overview

During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, seven-year-old Thomas Moran finds himself accidentally embarking on a career in pickpocketing. In the following years he becomes a master of his dubious craft and grows to manhood traveling from state to state across America. His picaresque... Read Full Overview

Having survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Thomas Moran stumbles into a career as a pickpocket at the tender age of seven. His picaresque journey takes him through Prohibition and the Depression accompanied by an assortment of gangsters and ne'er-do-wells.