Find movie and film cast and crew information for The Art of the Steal (2009) - Don Argott on AllMovie Your Complete Guide To Awards Season! The Art Of The Steal is a documentary on The Barnes Foundation, created by Dr. Albert C.Barnes with private collection of art which provides values to billions. Read the The Art of the Steal plot and find out who is in the cast and crew at Movies.com. The plot by -- director/writer Sobol -- contains enough originality to surprise, and is filled with lots of snappy back and forth dialogue (a staple of the heist flick, every since "Out of Sight"). Like with veteran actor, Terrance Stamp playing a paroled ex-art thief force to work with a bumbling Interpol agent assigned to catch the crew doing something wrong in order to win his freedom. "The Art of the Steal" is a must watch! It lost me at … Two art-thief brothers reunite for one last heist after years of bad blood in this old-fashioned caper movie. Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell may not make the most convincing half-brothers, but "The Art of the Steal" is a fairly amusing heist film with some sibling tension helping the story along. Packed with great actors, some uproarious sequences, and a fast-moving far-fletched plot, "The Art of the Steal" looks and feels like a crime thriller, but it's a comedy, and each actor has clicked into his respective role with a gusto and enjoyment that really makes the film. The Art of the Steal is a 2009 documentary film directed by Don Argott, about the controversial move of the Barnes Foundation, generally considered to be the world's best collection of post-Impressionist art and valued in 2009 to be worth at least $25-billion, from Merion, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of of The Art of the Steal with exclusive news, photos, videos and more at TVGuide.com The Art of the Steal Cast & Crew Credits: Jonathan Sobol Kurt Russell Matt Dillon Jay Baruchel Chris Diamantopoulos Terence Stamp Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. With that in mind, director Jonathan Sobol's The Art Of The Steal tries to be a little too clever in its plotting. The bigger and more audacious the crime, the more complex the plot has to be. This documentary reveals the struggles by the foundation through its patrons for containing its priceless art, which was under the threat of becoming museum objects. A gripping tale of intrigue and mystery in the art world, this film traces the history of the Barnes collection of Post-Impressionist paintings, which was worth billions and became the subject of a power struggle after the 1951 death of the owner.