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I remember catching this at the time I was regularly watching ABC-TV's movie of the week. Back then, they were producing some quality stuff such as Steven Spielberg's Duel, That Certain Summer with Hal Holbrook about a teenager coming to terms with his divorced father being gay, Short Walk to Daylight with James Brolin about earthquake survivors in the New York subway, & The Girl Most Likely to..., with Ed Asner & Stockard Channing about an ugly duckling gaining her beauty and then seeking revenge on everyone who mistreated her. Beg, Borrow, or Steal had a great premise about 3 handicapped men pulling off a robbery, but like many of the films done back then, I don't think it's been on the air in the past 35-40 years. A real shame.

I was living in the Twin Cities when this film premiered, and it was just a pleasant, humorous, and sometimes poignant adventure of one man's journey through the world of the personal ads. There's some great scenery showing off the Minneapolis parks & lakes system, and I seem to recall some great music throughout the film (anyone remember Nicolette Larson?). I found a used VHS copy of this film some years later and snatched it up. Unfortunately, I've managed to misplace it over time. I was lucky enough to run into Bill Schoppert, the lead actor in the film, at a local health club shortly before I left Minneapolis, and we got to chat about the film briefly. Talking about it put a smile on both of our faces. It'd be wonderful to catch this film on some late night channel so I could reminisce.