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| Directed by | Conor McPherson |
| Written by | Conor McPherson |
| Produced by | Neil Jordan Redmond Morris |
| Starring | Michael Caine Dylan Moran Lena Headey Michael Gambon Miranda Richardson Michael McElhatton Abigail Iversen Aisling O'Sullivan Ben Miller Simon Delaney Alvaro Lucchesi |
| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Edited by | Emer Reynolds |
| Music by | Michael Nyman |
Production companies | Miramax Films FilmFour Senator Film The Irish Film Board Four Provinces Films Company of Wolves Close Call Films |
| Distributed by | Icon Film Distribution (Australia) Senator Filmverleih (Germany) Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom and Ireland, through FilmFour Distributors)[1] |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
The Actors is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey.
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, whom he has never 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 eerily 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. The glass awning has since been rebuilt to its full former glory.
- ^ "The Actors (2003)". BBFC. Retrieved 14 May 2021.