# Burglar (1987)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Crime, Comedy
**Directed by**: Hugh Wilson
**Written by**: Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman, Hugh Wilson
**Starring**: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, John Goodman, Vyto Ruginis

> *A first rate comedy about a second story woman.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

This one wants to be a zany caper so badly. A bookstore-owning burglar finds a corpse during a routine heist. Now she has to solve the murder to avoid charges for that and the initial crime. It’s mostly a very late entry in a specific '80s filmography.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful

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