The Producers

Name: The Producers
Released: 2005-12-16
Cast: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach

The Producers

PG-13
2h 14m
2005

51%

age 14+

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Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to their award-winning roles in the hilariously funny film of the record-breaking Broadway smash-hit. Scheming producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and his mousy accountant, Leo Bloom (Broderick), discover that under the right circumstances they could make more money by producing a Broadway flop than they can with a hit. But what will they do when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a surprise sensation? Co-starring sexy Uma Thurman and comedy genius Will Ferrell, The Producers is a fun-filled, side-splitting comedy.

Director:

Susan Stroman

Producer:

Mel Brooks, Jonathan Sanger

Writer:

Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan

Cast:

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart, Eileen Essell, Michael McKean, David Huddleston, Debra Monk, Andrea Martin, Jon Lovitz

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

51%

Critics Consensus: Despite the rich source material, The Producers has a stale, stagy feel more suited to the theater than the big screen.

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

Works considerably more often than not.

September 20, 2020

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Bowling Green Daily News

Micheal Compton

The Producers has some great comic writing by Brooks to help offset the movie's many problems.

The Producers is a wonderful elegy for a certain kind of comic sensibility.

The original was far funnier and somehow managed to cut to the chase with less of a song and dance.

Be prepared to laugh from the opening credits through the closing credits.

June 21, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 14+

Common Sense Says

Long, too-faithful film of stage musical.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this film includes broad physical and what might be termed "vaudevillian" humor: ethnic, gay, and sex jokes, with language that might need explanation for younger viewers ("I shall take your virginity!" "You had to schtupp every little old lady in New York..."). The film also makes fun of a neurotic man's blanket fixation, Nazis/Hitler, prison, accountants, and actors ("Kill all ze actors!"). Since the movie is a satire, only kids old enough to recognize the movie's tongue in cheek references should see it.