Criminal is a 2004 English-language Comedy Crime film featuring John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Zitto Kazann, Jonathan Tucker and Paul Korda. The movie is based on Nueve reinas by Fabi n Bielinsky. Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill. 2929 Productions in association with Section Eight Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) George Clooney, Gregory Jacobs and Steven Soderbergh. Criminal is written by Fabián Bielinsky, Gregory Jacobs and Steven Soderbergh and it is directed by Gregory Jacobs. Warner Independent Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. Criminal was released on 24th September 2004 and takes a screen time of 87 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Criminal was made on a budget of ₹2 crore and it was a hit at box office gross of ₹3 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by Gregory Jacobs and Sam Lowry. Cinematography was done by Chris Menges and editing by Stephen Mirrione. The music was composed by Alex Wurman.