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Impostors (The)
- Director: Stanley Tucci
- Writer: Stanley Tucci
- Producer: Elizabeth W. Alexander; Jonathan Filley
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How can you assemble a fine cast and present them with a script that is as funny as a night in an extermination camp?
Tucci is the only person that can supply an answer...we like Stanley...as an actor!
Money has been thrown at this and none of it stuck.
Tucci is a decent, jobbing character actor. Stick to the day job - as a director you are not amply equipped.
A shambolic mess.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.
Cast & Characters
Oliver Platt as Maurice;
Stanley Tucci as Arthur;
Walker Jones as Maitre D';
Jessica Walling as Attractive Woman;
David Lipman as Baker in Kramer's Pastries;
E. Katherine Kerr as Gertrude in 'Hamlet';
George Guidall as Claudius in 'Hamlet';
William Hill as Bernardo in 'Hamlet';
Alfred Molina as Sir Jeremy Burtom;
Michael Emerson as Burtom's Assistant;
Jack O'Connell as Stage Manager;
Matt Malloy as Mike / Laertes in 'Hamlet';
Ted Blumberg as Francisco in 'Hamlet';
Lili Taylor as Lily 'Lil';
Tony Shalhoub as Voltri, First Mate