Synopsis
In 1961 Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge—a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage.
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Movie Details
| United Kingdom Releases: |
February 25th, 2022 (Wide) |
| Video Release: |
July 26th, 2022 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| MPAA Rating: |
R for language and brief sexuality.
(Rating bulletin 2670 (cert #53106), 3/3/2021) |
| Running Time: |
96 minutes |
| Keywords: |
1960s, Set in London, Heist, Comedy Drama, Biography, Political Activist, Political, Museum |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Dramatization |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Pathe, Ingenious Media, Screen Yorkshire, Neon Films |
| Production Countries: |
United Kingdom |
| Languages: |
English |
Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2022/02/25 |
3 |
$1,330,820 |
|
651 |
$2,044 |
$1,330,820 |
1 |
| 2022/03/04 |
4 |
$901,290 |
-32% |
651 |
$1,384 |
$3,620,815 |
2 |
| 2022/03/11 |
5 |
$654,146 |
-27% |
644 |
$1,016 |
$5,050,506 |
3 |
| 2022/03/18 |
8 |
$298,727 |
-54% |
522 |
$572 |
$5,986,898 |
4 |
| 2022/03/25 |
9 |
$112,996 |
-62% |
381 |
$297 |
$6,388,154 |
5 |
| 2022/04/01 |
15 |
$58,716 |
-48% |
143 |
$411 |
$6,619,110 |
6 |
| 2022/04/08 |
14 |
$42,348 |
-28% |
93 |
$455 |
$6,728,948 |
7 |
| 2022/04/15 |
- |
$5,687 |
-87% |
48 |
$118 |
$6,804,051 |
8 |
| 2022/04/22 |
- |
$5,084 |
-11% |
53 |
$96 |
$6,712,802 |
9 |
| 2022/04/29 |
- |
$4,532 |
-11% |
41 |
$111 |
$6,593,478 |
10 |
| 2022/05/06 |
- |
$1,504 |
-67% |
4 |
$376 |
$6,501,400 |
11 |
| 2022/05/13 |
- |
$2,456 |
+63% |
5 |
$491 |
$6,461,642 |
12 |
| 2022/05/20 |
- |
$1,384 |
-44% |
2 |
$692 |
$6,600,269 |
13 |
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