The Impostors

In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci…

• Director: Stanley Tucci
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:101 minutes

Cast

Oliver Platt : Maurice
Stanley Tucci : Arthur
Walker Jones : Maitre D’
Jessica Walling : Attractive Woman
David Lipman : Baker in Kramer’s Pastries

Arthur (Tucci) and Maurice (Platt) scrape a living by petty swindles and practice their acting technique whenever they can. Following a drunken confrontation with pretentious and dreadful Shakespearean actor Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), they are forced to hide as stowaways on a cruise ship. Unfortunately for the duo, Burtom himself turns out to be a passenger on the ship, along with a vividly diverse ensemble of larger-than-life characters — Steve Buscemi plays a suicidal crooner named Happy Franks who sobs through a song; Billy Connolly is an aging gay professional tennis player; Tony Shalhoub is the first mate who is also a mad bomber with his own language; and many more.

Mistaken identities, pratfalls, slapstick, and general mayhem ensue. Although the plotting is light, the film is a warm-hearted and charming tribute to the early days of film comedy, fuelled by the eclectic mix of characters, who (as the title suggests) all turn out to be impostors of some kind; but the very diversity of the ensemble turns out to be the film’s central point. Read more

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