The Actors (2003)

Directed by

Conor McPherson

Genre

comedy film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two mediocre stage actors in Dublin scheme to con a retired gangster by pretending to be someone else. They get help from one actor's clever nine-year-old niece who fixes their plan when it goes wrong.

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What happens

The Actors is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey. The Actors is a contemporary comedy set in Dublin. It follows the exploits of two mediocre stage actors as they devise a plan to con a retired gangster out of £50,000. The gangster owes the money to a third party, whom he has never met. The actors take advantage of this fact by impersonating this 'unidentified' third party, and claiming the debt as their own. To pull it off they enlist Moran's eerily intelligent nine-year-old niece, who restructures the plan each time something goes wrong. The two protagonists are acting in a version of Shakespeare's Richard III in which everyone dresses in Nazi uniform, a nod to Ian McKellen's production. The film is centred on the Olympia Theatre, and it is noteworthy for featuring the famous glass awning over the entrance which has since been destroyed in a traffic accident. The glass awning has since been rebuilt to its full former glory. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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