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Two South Africans, desperate to escape the impoverished futility of their lives, break into the home of an aging academic who walks in on them as they're ransacking the place for money. A pair of wealthy scions with off-the-charts IQs and a perverse attachment to each other leapfrog from petty burglary to arson to "the crime of the century." An egomaniacal writer with puppy dog good looks and an inveterate passive-a…