{"id":2299187,"date":"2026-02-25T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2299187"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:50:44","slug":"john-turturros-sundance-crime-thriller-only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york-sells-to-sony-pictures-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-turturros-sundance-crime-thriller-only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york-sells-to-sony-pictures-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"John Turturro\u2019s Sundance Crime Thriller \u2018Only Living Pickpocket in New York\u2019 Sells to Sony Pictures Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001806\/\">John Turturro<\/a>\u2019s crime thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36482679\/\">The Only Living Pickpocket in New York<\/a>\u201d has sold to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1150541\/\">Sony Pictures<\/a> Classics a month after its Sundance Film Festival premiere.<\/p>\n<p>A release date hasn\u2019t been set but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1116901\/\">SPC<\/a> is eyeing a theatrical debut in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0781913\/\">Noah Segan<\/a>, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053168\/\">Pickpocket<\/a>\u201d follows Harry (Turturro), a veteran of the craft who struggles to keep up with the changing times \u2014 phones are trackable, wallets rarely have cash and guns are hiding in plain sight. When a theft goes awry, Harry embarks on a high-stakes race against time through the Big Apple. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002064\/\">Giancarlo Esposito<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1137209\/\">Tatiana Maslany<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000114\/\">Steve Buscemi<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0037410\/\">Karina Arroyave<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3483537\/\">Victoria Moroles<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11153903\/\">Will Price<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000130\/\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoah Segan\u2019s \u2018The Only Living Pickpocket\u2019 is one of the great New York movies ever featuring John Turturro in the finest performance of his career, and it\u2019s a glorious entertainment,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Turturro\u2019s crime thriller \u201cThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York\u201d has sold to Sony Pictures Classics a month after its Sundance Film Festival premiere. A release date hasn\u2019t been set but SPC is eyeing a theatrical debut in the fall. Written and directed by Noah Segan, \u201cPickpocket\u201d follows Harry (Turturro), a veteran of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2299187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/John-Turturros-Sundance-Crime-Thriller-\u2018Only-Living-Pickpocket-in-New.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299189,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299187\/revisions\/2299189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}