An effective farce is a comic contraption that largely runs on its own crude mechanics. The surprises and sight gags, however they are discharged, are more important than the actors and the direction. Casting is a matter of filling in blanks. Some comedians, when they slip on a banana peel, look more ridiculous than others. But it's still a banana...
AMERICAN remakes of foreign films are so commonplace these days that they hardly seem worth mentioning. But ''Death at a Funeral'' is a rather unlikely redo of a British comedy of manners. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, arrives just three years after the original was released in the United States. This time Chris Rock leads an ensemble...
NEARLY three decades ago ''48 Hrs.'' arrived in theaters with a bang. That 1982 movie, in which a gruff white detective partners with a smooth-talking black convict to hunt down a killer, took in $78 million at the North American box office on a $13 million budget, transformed a young comedian turned actor named Eddie Murphy into a Hollywood...
Daniel Lebern Glover (født 22. juli 1946) er en amerikansk skuespiller og instruktør. Han er bedst kendt fra sin rolle som politibetjent Sgt. Roger Murtaugh i Dødbringende våben-serien og sin rolle som Whoopi Goldbergs undertrykkende ægtemand i Farven lilla.