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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Dana Ivey, Alfred Molina, Michael Emerson, Matt McGrath, Elizabeth Bracco, Woody Allen, Campbell Scott, Lili Taylor, Oliver Platt, Hope Davis, Allan Corduner, Stanley Tucci ...MORE

Cast: Dana Ivey, Alfred Molina, Michael Emerson, Matt McGrath, Elizabeth Bracco, Woody Allen, Campbell Scott, Lili Taylor, Oliver Platt, Hope Davis, Allan Corduner, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Teagle F. Bougere, Steve Buscemi, Richard Jenkins, Billy Connolly, Allison Janney, Isabella Rossellini ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Farce

The Impostors is a 1998 farce motion picture written and directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly. The film, in which Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci play a Laurel and Hardy-like odd couple of out-of work actors, is set in the depression-era 1930s; indeed, the retro style of the film is a recreation of 30s screwball comedy. The opening silent sequence harks back to the golden days of silent film. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Arthur (Tucci) and... MORE

The Impostors is a 1998 farce motion picture written and directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly. The film, in which Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci play a Laurel and Hardy-like odd couple of out-of work actors, is set in the depression-era 1930s; indeed, the retro style of the film is a recreation of 30s screwball comedy. The opening silent sequence harks back to the golden days of silent film. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Arthur (Tucci) and Maurice (Platt) scrape a living by petty swindles and practice their acting technique whenever they can. Following a drunken confrontation with pretentious and dreadful Shakespearean actor Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), they are forced to hide as stowaways on a cruise ship. Unfortunately for the duo, Burtom himself turns out to be a passenger on the ship, along with a vividly diverse ensemble of larger-than-life characters — Steve Buscemi plays a suicidal crooner named Happy Franks who sobs through a song; Billy Connolly is an aging gay professional wrestler; Tony Shalhoub is the first mate who LESS