First Look: The Producers
Release Date: December 21, 2005
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: Musical comedy
Country: United States
Director: Susan Stroman
Screenwriter: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan
Cast: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell, Roger
Bart, Gary Beach
Synopsis:
Mel Brooks is bringing The Producers, one of the most honored musicals
in the history of the American theater, to the motion picture screen as
a sparkling, feature-length musical comedy. The record-breaking Tony Award-winning
hit (based on Mel Brooks' seminal 1968 motion picture comedy) received
15 nominations and won a record-breaking 12 awards, including Best Musical,
Best Director and Choreographer, and Best Actor.
Two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to
their celebrated roles as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a scheming theatrical
producer and his mousy CPA who hit upon the perfect plan to embezzle a
fortune: raise far more money than you need to produce a sure-fire Broadway
flop and then (since no one will expect anything back), Max and Leo can
pocket the difference. To do this, they need the ultimate bad play, which
they find in the musical Springtime for Hitler. Their plans come to naught
and the duo are taken completely by surprise when their new production
is hailed as a toast-of-the-town hit. Will Ferrell also brings his spot-on
comic talents to the role of Franz Liebkind, the neo-Nazi playwright (and
pigeon fancier) responsible for penning the "worst play ever written."
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