The Ladykillers (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Irma P. Hall, J.K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Tom Hanks, Tzi MaBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product features:
- Academy Award(R)-winning Tom Hanks (Best Actor, FORREST GUMP, 1994; PHILADELPHIA, 1993) turns in a hilariously original performance in THE LADYKILLERS, the laugh-out-loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers (O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, FARGO). Underneath Professor G.H. Dorr's (Hanks) silver-tongued southern gentleman persona is a devious criminal
Movie Reviews of The Ladykillers (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: I laughed myself hoarse
Summary: 5 Stars
I should have known what to expect from the Coen Brothers. but his film took me by surprise.
I think I was expecting a conventional comedy. The Coen Brothers however do not make conventional comedies.
From the first scene where Mrs Munson assails the sherrif about the playing of "hippity hop" so loudly that it upsets her dead husband, I knew this would be another "Oh Brother Where Art Thou".
Tom Hanks as the "Professor" plots to rob the bank of a Mississippi casino boat and assembles a motley group of "subject matter experts" to tunnel from Mrs Munson basement to the vault.
They use the guise that they are Renaissance musicians who need a root cellar with good acoustics in which to practice.
Mrs. Munson a very proper and active churh going lady played with aploumb by Irma Hall catches them after the act, now they have to decide what to do and they decide to kill her to keep her from going to the sheriff. I'm not sure if the parts leading up to the robbery are funnier or all the sub-plots afterwards, but with this DVD you'll be pausing and backing up constantly to catch it all.
This is probably Tom Hanks best role since Forrest Gump as another reviewer pointed out, but the skill doesn't stop there.
J.K. Simmons ( J. Jonah Jameson - Spiderman ) has to be the best character actor in todays market. He plays Garth Pancake - Jack of all Trades and the groups demolition expert. The scene where he tells Gawain (Wayons) how he met Mountain Girl at an I.B.S. support group was "moving" experience. I moved. I fell off the couch laughing and hit my head on the coffee table.
There are so many comedic gems in this movie it will impossible to list them all.
This movie is probably not for everyone. I would say that if you like offbeat (really offbeat) comedies or liked Oh Brother... you'll love this one. It's probably worth watching just for the perfoamces of Hanks, Simmons, Wayons, Tzi Ma, Hurst and especially Mrs. Hall. Heck, in this movie even the dead guy Othar has a funny part.
and.... "Pickles! Oh, Lord. Pickles"
Summary of The Ladykillers (Widescreen Edition)
Academy Award(R)-winning Tom Hanks (Best Actor, FORREST GUMP, 1994; PHILADELPHIA, 1993) turns in a hilariously original performance in THE LADYKILLERS, the laugh-out-loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers (O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, FARGO). Underneath Professor G.H. Dorr's (Hanks) silver-tongued southern gentleman persona is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his churchgoing landlady's root cellar to a casino's vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens to call the police, they figure they'll just bump her off. After all, how hard can that be? Wickedly funny from start to finish, it would be a crime to miss THE LADYKILLERS.If you've never enjoyed Alec Guinness in the classic 1955 British comedy that inspired it, the Coen brothers' remake of The Ladykillers may well prove hilarious. For starters, it's got Tom Hanks in a variation of the Guinness role, eccentrically channeling Colonel Sanders, Tennessee Williams, and Edgar Allan Poe in his southern-fried performance as Prof. Goldthwait Higgins Dorr, Ph.D. (named after an actual arts institute curator from the Coens' native Minnesota), a deliciously verbose con man who needs a secret headquarters for his five-man plot to rob a riverboat casino moored on the Mississippi. In the film's funniest and least-caricatured role (and even she can't elude the Coens' comedic stereotyping), Irma P. Hall plays the churchgoing widow who rents a room to Dorr, whose crew of "musicians" (in keeping with the original's plot) use the lady's root cellar to tunnel to the casino's cash-rich counting room. Rampant mishaps ensue, the body count rises among Dorr's band of idiots (including Marlon Wayans, spouting nonstop profanities), and the Coens put their uniquely stylish stamp on everything. It's a funny movie, allowing for some nagging flatness to the material, but if you've seen the original (and other vintage comedies from the heyday of Britain's low-budget Ealing Studios), you'll eventually wonder, what were they thinking? Accounting for all the qualities that grace any Coen movie (this being the first time the brothers have officially shared directorial credit), this revamped Ladykillers is a mixed blessing, both entertaining and superfluous. --Jeff Shannon
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