The Brothers Bloom (2008)

Ricky Jay: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : As far as con man stories go, I think I've heard them all. Of grifters, ropers, faro-fixers; tails drawn long and tall. But if one bears a bookmark in the confidence man's tome, it would be that of Penelope, and of the brothers Bloom.

• Narrator : Another home, another main street. Stephen looked around, then summed the burgh up thusly:

  Young Stephen : Bloom, we've hit a one hat town.

  Narrator : One theater. One car wash. One café. One park. One cat. Which, through some mishap, had one leg.

• Young Stephen : [to Bloom, after finishing their first con]  So how's it feel?

  Narrator : In truth, young Bloom won't know for twenty years just how he felt.

  [Beat] 

  Narrator : And so, we'll skip ahead now in our story.

• Narrator : and being who he wasn't, could be as he wished to be