The Ladykillers

Comedy, Crime

Irma P. Hall	Marva Munson
Tom Hanks	Professor G.H. Dorr
Ryan Hurst	Lump Hudson
Tzi Ma	The General
J.K. Simmons	Garth Pancake
Marlon Wayans	Gawain MacSam
Diane Delano	Mountain Girl
George Wallace	Sheriff Wyner
John McConnell	Deputy Sheriff
Jason Weaver	Weemack Funthes
Stephen Root	Fernand Gudge
Lyne Odums	Rosalie Funthes
Walter K. Jordan	Elron
George Anthony Bell	Preacher
Greg Grunberg	TV Commercial Director

Director	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Producer	Barry Sonnenfeld; Joel Coen
Writer	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Cinematography	Roger Deakins
Musician	Carter Burwell

The Ladykillers portrays how famous burglar Professor G.H. Dorr (Tom Hanks) and his gang plot to steal an old lady's home. Professor G.H. Dorr appears as a refined person, despite his occupation, and his fondness of Edgar Alan Poe is the main identifying feature of the movie. The robbery, however, is just a backdrop to the movie's main purpose. The sequence of events following the attempt to rob the old lady, and the almost impossibly unfortunate consequences thereof, are part of the identification of the movie with Poe's work, which is its main highlight. References are everywhere, from citations of Poe's work to slight references inserted between the scenes to the obvious and explicit raven. Everything converges, eventually, to an equally Poe-ish ending.