The Ladykillers R

The Ladykillers
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 7, 2004
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Walt Disney Video

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Cannes 2004 - Jury Prize: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 65,624
Rating: 2/4 -- The story, adapted by the Coens themselves, is reduced to a series of hoops the characters must jump through to prove just how strange they are. Full Review
Lawrence.com
Sep 29, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- Hanks is looser and funnier than he has been in quite some time. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Sep 24, 2007
Those seeking a quirky and clever comedy should hightail it to THE LADYKILLERS...
USA Today
Mar 26, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Despite cartoonish characters, over-the-top hijinks, and occasional lapses of bad taste, any movie that leaves you laughing up the aisle, has to remain well-recommended. Full Review
Princeton Town Topics
May 2, 2007
It is not the blockbuster the (Coen) brothers hanker after, and it is not going to be a critical success, but, for me, it is the best comedy they have managed. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Jan 8, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- Some wicked pleasures for mature teens and adults. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 28, 2010
Rating: 2/5 -- The Coens have such a distinctive style they hardly need to bother with such a specific homage, yet the unsure comic timing on show here would suggest that they couldn't their name in the snow in comparison with original director Alexander Mackendrick. Full Review
The List
Apr 17, 2019

Product Description:

It is always difficult to try to recreate a classic movie, so Joel and Ethan Coen took the premise of Alexander Mackendrick's beloved 1955 Ealing Studio caper comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as the basis for coming up with their own entertaining and bizarre remake. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., a would-be professor who talks his way into the root cellar of Mrs. Munson (Irma P. Hall), where he and his supposed band will practice their "Renaissance music." But they are actually plotting to tunnel through to steal a mint from a riverboat casino. The motley crew of incompetent criminals includes Marlon Wayans as Gawain MacSam, a hip-hoppity thug pretending to be a janitor; J.K. Simmons as movie prop man and demolition "expert" Garth Pancake, who has problems with intestinal bowel syndrome; Tzi Ma as the General, a Vietnamese tunnel rat with a Hitler mustache; and Ryan Hurst as a pathetically dumb football wannabe named Lump. Just when they think all is going well, they run into a curious Mrs. Munson, who smells something funny. The film includes several exhilarating Gospel scenes set in southern churches, and lots of riotous site gags. The Coen brothers have done it yet again.

Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:

The Ladykillers
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.

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