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Genres:
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Comedy
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Release:
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Director:
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Stanley Tucci
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Actors:
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Matt Malloy,
William Hill,
Michael Emerson,
David Lipman,
E. Katherine Kerr,
Walker Jones,
Jessica Walling,
George Guidall,
Ted Blumberg,
Oliver Platt,
Stanley Tucci,
Alfred Molina,
Jack O'Connell,
Lili Taylor,
Tony Shalhoub
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)85
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Plot Summary:
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Con artists and struggling actors Tucci and Platt, after insulting stage brilliant Molina, find themselves as stowaways on a cruise ship, number whose passengers is the anyhow Molina. In support of the idle about of the voyage, they are artificial into a series of impersonations - from crew members to wealthy passengers to women - to elude detection.
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Impostors, The
Actor Stanley Tucci followed his critically acclaimed directorial debut, Big Night, with this farcical comedy (originally titled Ship of Fools), in which he and the under-rated Oliver Platt star as two out-of-work actors in the Depression who stow away on a luxury liner populated with eccentric passengers. A spoof on classics like Grand Hotel, the film features some rather old-fashioned slapstick, which often works well thanks to the timing skills of the eclectic cast. Tucci has gathered an array of familiar faces, including Lili Taylor, Alfred Molina, Isabella Rossellini and, in the most hilarious turns of all, Billy Connolly (as a frisky tennis player), Steve Buscemi (as a suicidal performer named Happy) and Tucci's Big Night co-director Campbell Scott (as the Nazi-...
Impostors, The
After the charming delights of Tucci's Big Night, this knockabout '30s farce comes as a severe disappointment. Its...
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