The Best Thief in the World is a comedy-drama film directed by Jacob Kornbluth starring Mary-Louise Parker.
The movie was released in 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, and it aired on Showtime on January 11, 2005.
The movie is about a kid named Izzy who lives in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights.
His mother, Sue, is an English teacher whose salary is only enough to pay the rent for their apartment.
Izzy does not steal things from houses, instead he eats food, moves around the furniture, writes words on walls, takes showers, and burn pieces of paper.