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The Ladykillers (Full Screen Edition) DVD

R (Restricted) :: Walt Disney Video :: Released: 2004-09-07

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The Ladykillers (Full Screen Edition) Summary 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

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

Ladykillers [P&S] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 104 mins
UPC: 786936239492
Binding: DVD
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Dolby, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language),