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The Ladykillers Movie Rating:  Dire
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| The Coen Brothers reach for a new low in bad taste and find it in this virtually laugh-free comedy that trades on racism, noxious stereotypes, and infantile vulgarity. | |
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In this remake of a 1955 British classic film, Tom Hanks plays Professor G.H. Dorr, an effete,
logorrheic thief and head of a gang of morons who plan to rob a riverboat casino.
When Dorr's elderly landlady, Mrs. Munson (Irma P. Hall), stumbles onto their
scheme, the race is on to rub her out before she can make good her threat to
report them. It's a toss-up as to which is more excruciating - the vile humour, or Hanks' annoying, one-note performance, which is a cross between Colonel Sanders and Captain Birdseye. The gospel soundtrack is wonderful, but that hardly compensates for the rest of this empty-headed exercise. |
 Tom Hanks at the Ladykillers party at Cannes 2004. |
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