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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: Mar 26, 2004
Running Time: 104 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III is a charlatan professor who has assembled a gang of experts for the heist of the century. The thieves are experts in explosions, tunneling and muscle. The professor is their critical inside man. The base of operations is the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going, little old lady named Mrs. Munson. 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 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' before she ruins their heist. After all, how hard can it be to knock off an old lady? They'll soon find out.
cast + crew
Director
Director
Professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr
Marva Munson
Gawain MacSam
Lump
Sheriff Wyner
Fernand Grudge
TV Commercial Director
The General
Garth Pancake
Li'l Gawain
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Co-Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Associate Producer
reviews
Re-making the 1955 British classic comedy starring Alec Guinness, The Coen brothers refresh The Ladykillers with a Southern twist and a new comic turn by a highly caricatured Tom Hanks. Playing the ringleader of a casino heist living in the house of a sassy Southern widow, Hanks and crew work all the madcap twists and turns of their trade, including the possibility of offing an innocent old lady. Story Tom Hanks stars as the charming but fiendishly eccentric Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, III,
March 23, 2004
Tom Hanks has a ball playing bogus professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., a silver-tongued, snaggle-toothed Southern gentleman with the soul of a poet and the heart of a thief. This is as far from Gump, the holy fool, as an actor can get. And Hanks seizes the moment. Don't let the professor fool you just because the poems of Edgar Allan Poe roll mellifluously off his tongue. He means to rob a riverboat casino in Mississippi and murder Marva Munson (a glorious Irma P. Hall), the old, widowed
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