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Ladykillers starring Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: Ladykillers starring Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans
Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D. (Tom Hanks), is a charlatan professor who has assembled a gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. The thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle, and the critical "inside man." The base of operations: the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going little old lady named Mrs. Munson (Irma P. Hall). The ruse: the five need a place to practice their church music. The problem: it quickly becomes evident that Dorr's thieves lack the mental capacity to do the job. The bigger problem: they have all seriously underestimated their upstairs host. When Mrs. Munson stumbles onto their plot and threatens to notify the authorities, the felonious five decide to do her in. After all, how hard can it be to knock off one old lady?
DVD Movie Rating for: The Ladykillers
Rating for
The Ladykillers : 3 out of 5 stars
Movie Plot of: The Ladykillers
Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks teams up for the first time with Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?") for this retelling of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy, "The Ladykillers." Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who's assembled a gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. The thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle, and the critical "inside man." The base of operations: the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going little old lady named Mrs. Munson (Irma P. Hall). The ruse: the five need a place to practice their church music. The problem: it quickly becomes evident that Dorr's thieves lack the mental capacity to do the job. The bigger problem: they have all seriously underestimated their upstairs host. When Mrs. Munson stumbles onto their plot and threatens to notify the authorities, the felonious five decide to do her in. After all, how hard can it be to knock off one old lady?
DVD Production Details of: The Ladykillers
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Full Screen
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD Release Date: September 7, 2004
The Ladykillers DVD Extra Bonus Features
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Cast of the movie: The Ladykillers
- Tom Hanks .... Professor G.H. Dorr
- Irma P. Hall .... Marva Munson
- Marlon Wayans .... Gawain MacSam
- J.K. Simmons .... Garth Pancake
- Tzi Ma .... The General
- Ryan Hurst .... Lump Hudson
- Diane Delano .... Mountain Girl
- George Wallace .... Sheriff Wyner
- John McConnell .... Deputy Sheriff
- Jason Weaver .... Weemack Funthes
- Stephen Root .... Fernand Gudge
- Lyne Odums .... Rosalie Funthes (as Baadja-Lyne Odums)
- Walter K. Jordan .... Elron (as Walter Jordan)
- George Anthony Bell .... Preacher
- Greg Grunberg .... TV Commercial Director
- Hallie Singleton .... Craft Service
- Robert Baker .... Quarterback
- Blake Clark .... Football Coach
- Amad Jackson .... Doughnut Gangster
- Aldis Hodge .... Doughnut Gangster
- Freda Foh Shen .... Doughnut Woman
- Paula Martin .... Gawain's Mama
- Jeremy Suarez .... Li'l Gawain
- Te Te Benn .... Gawain's Sister
- Khalil East .... Gawain's Brother
- Jennifer Echols .... Waffle Hut Waitress
- Nita Norris .... Tea Lady
- Vivian Smallwood .... Tea Lady
- Maryn Tasco .... Tea Lady
- Muriel Whitaker .... Tea Lady
- Jessie Bailey .... Tea Lady
- Louisa Abernathy .... Church Voice (voice)
- Mildred Dumas .... Church Voice (voice)
- Al Fann .... Church Voice (voice)
- Mi Mi Green-Fann .... Church Voice (voice)
- Maurice Watson .... Othar
- Bruce Campbell .... Humane Society Worker (uncredited)
- Michael Dotson .... Angry Football Fan (uncredited)
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Reviews of the movie: 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.
