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The Producers |
| Cast |
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Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Roger
Bart, Gary Beach, Uma Thurman, Andrea
Martin, Debra Monk, Will Ferrell, Michael
McKean, David Huddleston |
| Producer |
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Mel Brooks, Jonathan Sanger |
| Director |
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Susan Stroman |
| Genre |
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Musical, Comedy, Remake |
| Duration |
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134 mins |
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It's a 1959, and Broadway is buzzing
with some of the theater world's biggest names.
Producer Max Bialystock, however, is no longer one
of them. One day, mousy accountant Leo Bloom shows
up at Bialystock's office to do his books and innocently
remarks that a dishonest man could make more money
producing a flop than a hit show. Immediately, a
light bulb goes off in Bialystock's head, and he
tries to persuade the reluctant Bloom to join him
in his perfect plan to embezzle a fortune by producing
a sure fire Broadway misfire and then skip town
with the cash. Deciding he's had enough, Bloom seizes
the day and becomes Bialystock's partner in crime.
Searching for the ultimate bad play, Max and Leo
discover a musical entitled "Springtime
for Hitler - A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva in Berchesgarten."
They decide to pay the playwright, Franz Liebkind,
a visit on his Greenwich Village rooftop. Before
he will agree to let Bialystock and Bloom produce
his play, however, the Nazi loving Liebkind insists
the two would-be producers join him in celebrating
the Aryan way of life and forces them to pledge
allegiance to Hitler. Bialystock and Bloom embark
upon securing the most appropriately untalented
director.
Upon entering the piss elegant apartment of Roger
DeBris and his common law assistant Carmen Ghia,
the duo finds that DeBris and company are reluctant
to take on such serious subject matter until the
producers convince them that, in their hands, "Springtime
For Hitler" could bring the director
the respect and prestige (read:
Tony) of which he's always dreamed. When
blonde Swedish bombshell Ulla shows up at the office
looking to audition, Bialystock and Bloom hire her
on the spot for the chorus.
Until rehearsals, the panting duo agree that she'll
work as their secretary/ receptionist. In order
to raise the two million dollars needed to "fund"
the play, Bialystock must pay a visit to his demanding
benefactors, hundreds of sex starved little old
ladies across Manhattan. Meanwhile, the girl shy
Bloom becomes hopelessly smitten with Ulla and is
surprised to find that the attraction is quite mutual.
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