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The Impostors (1998)
Director: Stanley Tucci
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
After the charming delights of Tucci's Big Night, this knockabout '30s farce comes as a severe disappointment. Its intentions are made clear from the opening credits sequence: with its style and intertitles recalling silent movies, hapless pair Arthur (Tucci) and Maurice (Platt) vie to play the 'death scene' for one of their cons. Two poverty-stricken thesps, they stow away as stewards on the 'Continental' liner to escape a charge of assault on a boozy, talentless English thea- trical knight (Molina), only for the great man to appear, cops in tow. This is distictly old- fashioned fare, with Keystone-age capers and dastardly disguises, pitched at the edge of self-parody, ham with egg on the face. In scenes that blend the worst of Agatha Christie with the ignoblest of Brian Rix, cameos come a-plenty, each more embarrassing than its predecessor. Plots hatch, robberies occur, deceit descends, lies are plied - our spirits flag.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Tucci
Producer: Beth Alexander, Stanley Tucci
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Teagle F Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi, Billy Connolly, Hope Davis, Alfred Molina, Isabella Rossellini, Campbell Scott, Tony Shalhoub, Lili Taylor, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
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