Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The producers [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Brooksfilms ; Steiner Studios ; Brooklyn Navy Yark ; Columbia Pictures Corporation ; LOOK! Effects, Inc. ; produced by Mel Brooks, Jonathan Sanger ; screenplay by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan ; directed by Susan Stroman.
Call Number:
DVD P
Edition:
Widescreen ed.
Publisher, Date:
Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures, [2006], c2005.
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Musical version of the 2001 stage play. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime for Hitler' written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct and hire the loopy Swedish bombsheel Ulla as the lead actress.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual humor and references.
Subjects:
Theatrical producers and directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Bad faith (Law) -- Drama.
Musicals -- Drama.
Musical DVDs.
Comedy DVDs.
Genre:
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Comedy films.
Musical films.
Other Author:
Stroman, Susan.
Lane, Nathan, 1956-
Broderick, Matthew, 1962-
Thurman, Uma.
Ferrell, Will, 1967-
Beach, Gary.
Bailey, John, 1942 August 10-
Minsky, Charles.
Brooks, Mel, 1926-
Meehan, Thomas.
Universal Pictures (Firm)