2005 · comedy · disaster · music
The Producers
Directed by Susan Stroman2h 14m2005
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Our read: The Producers (2005) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · disaster · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / disaster, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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