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The Impostors (DVD, 1999, Widescreen)
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Leading Role: Oliver Platt
Director: Stanley Tucci
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: May 1999
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Widescreen
UPC: 086162000744
Product ID: EPID3303572
Description: This riotous throwback to the slapstick comedy of the vaudeville era is inventively written, directed, co-produced, and performed by Stanley Tucci (BIG NIGHT). He and Oliver Platt play acting partners just trying to catch a break. Down o...
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It was in brand new condition. I enjoyed the movie, which is why I bought it
for a Christmas gift to give.
for a Christmas gift to give.
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Very funny throwback to classic comedies.Review created: 01/02/09
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Stanley Tucci heads a team of classic character actors from Tony Shalhoub, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, and Steve Buscemi to Isabella Rossalini, Alfred Molina, Richard Jenkins, and Woody Allen. Every character gets their time to shine in this gentle farce that harkens back to the days of Laurel & Hardy. A refreshing comedy.
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Sometimes you try TOO hard--
) Sometimes you try too hard, and in the case of The Impostors, easing up on the set up, smoothing the transitions, and trying less to go back to the earlier days of comedy movie presentations-- that would have helped.
Great actors, great technical presentation, trying to hard on the story?
sorry.
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Great actors, great technical presentation, trying to hard on the story?
sorry.
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Guffaw and snortle !Review created: 04/30/08
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) Brilliantly written, outrageously ham-chocked fun-drama hilarity!
Does thoughts of two stow-aways escaping the police
stuffed onto a cruise ship
full of fakes and fanatics
soon to be blown-up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
by a frantic extremist
make you dream of fabulous comedic genius?
Good!
This comedy is wonderfully acted
and emotively OVER-acted
cleverly-directed pure fun !
.... This film can be watched many, many times.
The director gave daily awards, "the Golden Ham"
to the actor who most overplayed his or her emotions
during the filming of this chortling,
wincing, groaning, excellent comedy-gala.
The actors must have had an absolutely blast
while on the set,
and one suspects even the camera-crew
of laughing while trying to focus their cameras
on the hilarious antics of the cast.
Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!
Does thoughts of two stow-aways escaping the police
stuffed onto a cruise ship
full of fakes and fanatics
soon to be blown-up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
by a frantic extremist
make you dream of fabulous comedic genius?
Good!
This comedy is wonderfully acted
and emotively OVER-acted
cleverly-directed pure fun !
.... This film can be watched many, many times.
The director gave daily awards, "the Golden Ham"
to the actor who most overplayed his or her emotions
during the filming of this chortling,
wincing, groaning, excellent comedy-gala.
The actors must have had an absolutely blast
while on the set,
and one suspects even the camera-crew
of laughing while trying to focus their cameras
on the hilarious antics of the cast.
Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!
Review ID: 10000000006908241
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The ImpostorsPersonally, I adore Stanley Tucci, and I think this movie is one of the funniest sketch comedies.
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A Quirky, Zany, Frenzied Romp
) If you enjoy silly romp films like "It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way the Forum," "Noises Off," "Some Like It Hot," almost anything by Mel Brooks, the "Road To ..." movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and the Marx Brothers, you’ll probably get a kick out of this one.
The film starts in NYC in the 1930s with two out-of-work actors (Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt) practicing for roles they’ll never get and trying to scam food. When they insult an overrated stage actor (Alfred Molina), they find themselves running for their lives and hiding on aboard a ship. When they wake up in the morning, the ship – an ocean liner – is preparing to debark.
Of course they’re not going to get off the ship in time because they’ve got big work to do coming face to face again with the pompous actor plus a Nazi ship’s staff director, the compassionate and lovely social director, the sweet and innocent ship detective, the ship’s lovelorn captain, a deposed queen, an endangered sheik, an impoverished grande dame and her plain and shy daughter, an egocentric gay athlete, a suicidal entertainer, a Russian terrorist, and a pair of murderers. Whew! All that in under two hours!
The cast also includes Woody Allen, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi, Billy Connolly, Hope Davis, Dana Ivey (who flat out startled me in her similarity to Maggie Smith), Allison Janney, Richard Jenkins, Isabella Rossellini, Campbell Scott, Tony Shalhoub, and Lili Taylor.
Written, produced and directed by Stanley Tucci.
The film starts in NYC in the 1930s with two out-of-work actors (Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt) practicing for roles they’ll never get and trying to scam food. When they insult an overrated stage actor (Alfred Molina), they find themselves running for their lives and hiding on aboard a ship. When they wake up in the morning, the ship – an ocean liner – is preparing to debark.
Of course they’re not going to get off the ship in time because they’ve got big work to do coming face to face again with the pompous actor plus a Nazi ship’s staff director, the compassionate and lovely social director, the sweet and innocent ship detective, the ship’s lovelorn captain, a deposed queen, an endangered sheik, an impoverished grande dame and her plain and shy daughter, an egocentric gay athlete, a suicidal entertainer, a Russian terrorist, and a pair of murderers. Whew! All that in under two hours!
The cast also includes Woody Allen, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi, Billy Connolly, Hope Davis, Dana Ivey (who flat out startled me in her similarity to Maggie Smith), Allison Janney, Richard Jenkins, Isabella Rossellini, Campbell Scott, Tony Shalhoub, and Lili Taylor.
Written, produced and directed by Stanley Tucci.
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