BTW, if the story reminds you at all of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, it should. The Bicycle Thief was Burton's inspiration for Pee-Wee, although BT is not in any way a comedy. Quite the opposite.
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There’s a sub-culture movie underground, sorta, anyway they did a movie titled “The Icicle Thief” a play on the Bicycle Thief film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097702/
There is a bizarre, modern parody comedy of The Bicycle Thief called The Icicle Thief (1989).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097702/reference
Very surreal and comic, if you enjoy Italian parody. It has a 7.1 rating at IMDb.
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