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Hail, Caesar!

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• Comedy
• Mystery

• 2016
• Ethan Coen
• 101 mins
• 12A

Summary

Comedy starring Josh Brolin and George Clooney. In the 1950s, a Hollywood fixer tasked with keeping the scandalous antics of studio stars out of the press has a manic 24-hours involving the kidnap of an actor and the pregnancy of an unmarried "mermaid".

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

Joel and Ethan Coen's unashamed screwball comedy is a dizzy hooray to Hollywood. Josh Brolin does great, stoic work as a studio fixer in 1950s Burbank whose headaches over a 24-hour period include the kidnapping of star performer George Clooney, a spat with highly strung English director Ralph Fiennes and the pregnancy of Scarlett Johansson's unmarried musical mermaid. In place of a cohesive plot we get a plate-spinning exercise, but a thrilling and frequently hilarious one. Aided by cinematographer Roger Deakins, costumier Mary Zophres and composer Carter Burwell, the Coens re-create the CinemaScope age before our very eyes, with pitch-perfect movie parodies, including two flawless dance routines, one led by a cheerily homoerotic Channing Tatum in a sailor suit. It may not have a lot to say - other than: hey, the movies are just swell - but it's all executed with true love.

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6.3/10

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Cast

rolenameEddie MannixJosh BrolinBaird WhitlockGeorge ClooneyThora Thacker / Thessaly ThackerTilda SwintonLaurence LaurentzRalph FiennesBurt GurneyChanning TatumDeeAnna MoranScarlett JohanssonJoe SilvermanJonah HillHobie DoyleAlden EhrenreichCC CalhounFrances McDormandMrs MannixAlison PillGracchusClancy BrownCommunist writerDavid KrumholtzCommunist writerFisher StevensArne SeslumChristopher LambertProfessor MarcuseJohn BluthalLurking extraWayne KnightCad in cabJack HustonRabbiRobert PicardoWoman in cabAgyness DeynProducer of <em>Hail, Caesar!</em>Robert TreborNarratorMichael Gambon

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rolenameDirectorEthan CoenDirectorJoel Coen

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2016-03-04

Languages

English

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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