A serio-comic crime caper, the bittersweet “Henry’s Crime” covers familiar and unremarkable territory. A low-keyed Keanu Reeves is the title character whose life is going nowhere when he unintentionally becomes mixed-up in a botched bank robbery; unjustly serving time for the crime. Upon release, he decides to actually hold-up the bank. Max (a colorful James Caan), his former cellmate now on parole, is Henry’s mentor and in on the stick-up. The plan is to tunnel into a vault through a playhouse performing Anton Chekov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” The scheme snags when he falls for the lead actress (Vera Farmiga) and must choose between making a bundle or finding true love. Diverting in how it plays, “Henry’s Crime” director Malcolm Venville moves the story forward.
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