The Ladykillers

2004 • 104 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award(R)-winning Tom Hanks turns in a hilariously original performance in THE LADYKILLERS, the laugh-out-loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers. Underneath Professor G.H. Dorr's (Hanks) silver-tongued southern gentleman persona is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his churchgoing landlady's root cellar to a casino's vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens to call the police, they figure they'll just bump her off. After all, how hard can that be? Wickedly funny from start to finish, it would be a crime to miss THE LADYKILLERS.

Ratings and reviews

Tom Hanks and the Coen brothers at their best. The writing is superb....you will find yourself quoting lines from this movie. An unlikely loosely compatible group of thieves, headed up by Hanks, as a fraudulent classics´ scholar, scheme to rob a river boat casino from their base in a gentile southern lady´s root cellar...their demise is predictably unpredictable. Don't miss this better than the original remake.

One, if not TH's Best Acting. Castaway maybe equal. The Crow's acting gives TH a run-for-his-money and (**spoiler alert**) surely grabs it in the end. . . • Mic Cl;-)~ Ririe, Idaho •

Never forgot it! Made me laugh out loud. That is my standard for a 5 star comedy.