The Italian Job (2003 film) and formulaic in 1969." Travers enjoyed the comic relief in Green's and Def's characters, and added that Norton's was "[t]he most perversely magnetic performance" outside of the Mini Coopers, but felt that there was a lack of logic in the film. "The Italian Job" was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment October 7, 2003, and includes five bonus features on different aspects of the film's production, in addition to six deleted scenes. It was released on HD DVD August 8, 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc October 24, 2006. F. Gary Gray won a Film Life Movie Award for Best
The Italian Job (2003 film) start of the 21st century, along with "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999) and "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), both of which were also remakes of 1960s heist films. In describing his theory of a "team film" genre, film scholar Dr. Jeremy Strong writes that "The Italian Job" could be categorized as such, along with "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and more recently "The Usual Suspects" (1995) and "" (1996). He states that a team film involves a group working towards a particular objective. However, goal-orientation is a widely shared plot attribute of many texts and