An upper-class commodities broker and two starving artist whose lives cross paths when the artists takes a Picasso that the broker stole from MOMA - and the broker, MOMA, the FBI and a hired assassin all want the painting back.

The Artist is an American comedy film directed by Screen International's "Stars of the Future" Jesse Lawrence. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and two starving artist whose lives cross paths when the artists takes a Picasso that the broker stole from MOMA... and the broker, MOMA, the FBI and a hired assassin all want the painting back. The storyline is a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper. It also bears a resemblance to another of Mark Twain's stories, The Million Pound Bank Note.