The Actors

The Actors

Infobox Film | name = The Actors


image_size = 200px
caption =
director = Conor McPherson
producer = Neil Jordan
Redmond Morris
writer = Conor McPherson
starring = Michael Caine
Dylan Moran
music = Michael Nyman
cinematography = Seamus McGarvey
editing = Emer Reynolds
distributor = Miramax Films
released = April 17, 2003 (Eire)
runtime = 91 minutes
language = English
rating =
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0307919

"The Actors" is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Heady .

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, who he has never before 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 spookily 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 sly 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.

oundtrack

Infobox Album
Name = The Actors
Type = soundtrack
Longtype =
Artist = Michael Nyman,
Conor McPherson, Fionnula Flanagan


Cover size = 200
Caption =
Released = May 19, 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Soundtrack, contemporary classical, minimalism
Length =
Language = English
Label = EMI
Director =
Producer =
Reviews = Music OMH (favorable) [http://www.musicomh.com/albums/michael-nyman.htm]
Compiler =
Chronology = Michael Nyman
Last album =
2003
This album = The Actors
2003
Next album =
2004
Misc =
#Act One - The Michael Nyman Band and Moss Hall Junior Choir
#Star Of The Sea - Laura Cullinan, Bebhinn Ni Chiosain, Cliona Ni Chiosain & Niamh H Reynolds
#Zinc Bar Walk - The Michael Nyman Band
#A Certain Party - The Michael Nyman Band
#House On Fire - The Michael Nyman Band
#Act Two - The Michael Nyman Band
#Could This Be Love? - Lena Headey & Dylan Moran
#Mary Directs Tom - The Michael Nyman Band
#Una's Waltz - Una Ni Chiosain/Conor McPherson
#Rope Trick - The Michael Nyman Band
#Dolores On The Beach - The Michael Nyman Band
#Return To The Scene Of The Crime - The Michael Nyman Band
#Seems So Long - Cathy Davey
#Wheelchair Chase - The Michael Nyman Band
#Tubbetstown Elegy - The Michael Nyman Band
#Lovely Morning - Cathy Davey
#Mrs O'Growny Appears - The Michael Nyman Band
#Zinc Piano - The Michael Nyman Band
#Final Act - The Michael Nyman Band

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External links

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