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THE IMPOSTERS

“Faux Filmmaking”

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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THE IMPOSTERS is an uneven farce written and directed by Stanley Tucci, a dark and thin balding actor who directed last year’s critically acclaimed movie THE BIG NIGHT. This time, Tucci and Oliver Platt play two starving, unemployed actors. Their characters end up as stowaways on a cruise ship after they are chased by policemen. On the ship, they encounter a motley group of passengers, including two con artists, a banished queen, a terrorist, and a pompous theater star whom the actors insulted earlier in the movie. Eventually, they foil the various plots of the bad guys, and all the “good” people, including one homosexual, find romance.

Tucci and Platt are marvelously funny in the early scenes of THE IMPOSTERS. In those scenes, their quirky characters practice their art by staging phony fights and death scenes in public and by trying to con a baker out of some food. On the cruise ship, however, the other actors imbue their characters with stagy, flamboyant qualities that destroy almost all reality to this piece. THE IMPOSTERS also contains some foul language, gratuitous sexual references and a mildly pagan worldview where sensual pleasures and material goods are more important than good, moral behavior.

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(Pa, Ho, LL, V, SS, A, D, M) Light pagan worldview of gratifying one’s pleasures with some homosexual content; 10 obscenities, mostly strong ones, & 11 profanities, mostly strong ones; mild comedy violence, some chase scenes & some slapstick violence; scenes of implied fornication & homosexual desires mentioned several times; alcohol use; smoking; and, stealing, lying, attempted murder, & attempted terrorist bombing.

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THE IMPOSTERS is an uneven farce written and directed by Stanley Tucci, a dark and thin balding actor who directed last year’s critically acclaimed movie THE BIG NIGHT. This time, Tucci and Oliver Platt play two starving, unemployed actors. Their characters end up as stowaways on a cruise ship after they are chased by policemen. On the ship, they encounter a motley group of passengers, including two con artists, a banished queen, a terrorist, and a pompous theater star whom the actors insulted earlier in the movie. Eventually, they foil the various plots of the bad guys, and all the “good” people, including one homosexual, find romance.
Tucci and Platt are marvelously funny in the early scenes of THE IMPOSTERS. In those scenes, their quirky characters practice their art by staging phony fights and death scenes in public and by trying to con a baker out of some food. On the cruise ship, however, the other actors imbue their characters with stagy, flamboyant qualities that destroy almost all reality to this piece. THE IMPOSTERS also contains some foul language, gratuitous sexual references and a mildly pagan worldview where sensual pleasures and material goods are more important than good, moral behavior.