The Producers (2005)
Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) is skewered in theater circles after his latest Broadway play, a musical based on Hamlet called Funny Boy, flops. A neurotic accountant named Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) shows up to do Max's books. Leo makes a comment that a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit. A light goes off over Max's head, and soon, the two are out to produce the worst musical ever and take the money and run.
This is a fun movie, done up in the style of film musicals from way back in the day. Broderick and Lane play well off of each other, and several of the other actors steal their scenes. Uma Thurman sings and dances her way into the producers lives, as a Swedish dish who ends up having a big effect on Leo. Gary Beach and Roger Bart are deliciously over the top as a gay director and his assistant. Will Ferrell is loony as a Nazi playwright, and Jon Lovitz is Leo's hard-hearted boss at the accounting firm. Richard Kind has a small role as a jury foreman, Michael McKean appears as a convict, and Andrea Martin is one of Max's elderly benefactors.
The Producers is the brainchild of Mel Brooks, based on the 1968 movie and 2001 Broadway musical of the same name. Brooks has been around in comedy for decades, responsible for such craziness as "The 2000 Year Old Man", "Get Smart", Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. Eagle-eyed TV watchers will recognize Richard Kind from "Spin City", Andrea Martin from "SCTV", and Roger Bart from "Desperate Housewives". Michael McKean was in the rock documentary satire, This Is Spinal Tap, and he played hapless Lenny on "Laverne and Shirley".
This is a fun movie, done up in the style of film musicals from way back in the day. Broderick and Lane play well off of each other, and several of the other actors steal their scenes. Uma Thurman sings and dances her way into the producers lives, as a Swedish dish who ends up having a big effect on Leo. Gary Beach and Roger Bart are deliciously over the top as a gay director and his assistant. Will Ferrell is loony as a Nazi playwright, and Jon Lovitz is Leo's hard-hearted boss at the accounting firm. Richard Kind has a small role as a jury foreman, Michael McKean appears as a convict, and Andrea Martin is one of Max's elderly benefactors.
The Producers is the brainchild of Mel Brooks, based on the 1968 movie and 2001 Broadway musical of the same name. Brooks has been around in comedy for decades, responsible for such craziness as "The 2000 Year Old Man", "Get Smart", Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. Eagle-eyed TV watchers will recognize Richard Kind from "Spin City", Andrea Martin from "SCTV", and Roger Bart from "Desperate Housewives". Michael McKean was in the rock documentary satire, This Is Spinal Tap, and he played hapless Lenny on "Laverne and Shirley".
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