Andaz Apna Apna (1994), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Captain From Koepenick (1956), Bol Bachchan (2012), Romance on the High Seas (1948), The Inspector General (1949), Paper Mask (1990), Dave (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Impersonation movies.
Storyline: Katie McGovern is a struggling actress living with her husband and her student brother, who is visiting. She attends an audition that she found in the paper and is selected to shoot a short video which will be sent to the director for his approval. Mr. Murray, the man holding the audition, picks Katie up and takes her to a remote mansion where they shoot the video. Katie is selected to replace the previous lead in the film who looks remarkably like her. Soon, however, things begin to look as if they are not what they seem. Katie soon realizes she is in danger and attempts escape.—Brian D. Switzer <bswitzer@uoguelph.ca>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, horror, crime, psychological, film noir, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive, married, with a son. He used to have another profession: look-a-like of French star Claude François. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.—Bruno Benton
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, french film, midlife crisis, dreams, friendship, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London in the 1990s, a balding alcoholic with an unsteady American accent introduces himself in pubs and other social settings as Stanley Kubrick. Drinks and meals are suddenly on the house or paid for by an admiring person, usually a man, whose costumes, band, acting abilities or what have you, Stanley finds fascinating. He's actually Alan Conway (1934-1998): we watch him parlay a self-confident manner and a small amount of movie knowledge into a persona whom others immediately hang their dreams on. In exchange, Stanley asks only that they pay the bill. Will he be exposed? Do prosecution and prison await? Or has the National Health something else in mind?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, comedy, crime, drama, based on true story, con, celebrity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, love, deception, family, wealth, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the country of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, political, satire, latin america, dictatorship, actor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love. After the ship is underway, Padrinsky, the head of the real ballet academy, reads about the departure and also heads to Paris, bringing with him his ballet loving gangster patron, Mike Coogan, with orders to eliminate the pair of imposters. Things look bleak for Terry as Kay becomes angry and severs her relationship with Terry when she learns that Mona was once married to him and he never told her that. And Padrinsky gets a deportation order for the whole group on the day they were to perform in the contest.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcan.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, 1930s, show business, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, journalism, new york, war, on the run, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, her uptight step sister and her best friend use their savings for a long anticipated dream trip to Paris, which turns out to be a big disappointment. When they decide to take a break from their lousy tour and duck into the lobby of a luxury hotel, one of them is mistaken for a spoiled British heiress. Before they get the chance to reveal their true identities they are wrapped up in misadventures during a vacation to Monte Carlo instead.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, youth, love, adventure, travel, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brooklyn crooner Elly Jordan and his bandmates end up broke at a Wyoming dude ranch run by Jane Hardy. Singing for his supper there, Elly is heard by Broadway booker Roy Chadwick, who mistakes him for a genuine cowboy and decides to make him a star. The fact that Elly is terrified of animals (including horses) and doesn't know the first thing about the West makes his big break tough to pull off.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, western, song and dance, lighthearted, humorous ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brad Gluckman or "B-rad" acts like he is from the hood, when he is white and lives in a rich neighborhood in Malibu. He is ruining his fathers election for governor, and he and his crew come up with an idea, to send "B-rad" to the hood to turn him back into a white boy. This movie is filled with laughs and is a great comedy.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, racial issues, identity, father-son relationship, undercover ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lawyer Charlie (Jeff Daniels) is sent by his boss (Lawrence Pressman) to a small Nevada town to file a continuance request for mail-order con man Benjamin Gibbs (Rip Torn). Charlie's actor friend, Richard (Michael Richards), turns up to throw a surprise bachelor party celebrating Charlie's upcoming marriage to the boss's daughter (Alexandra Wentworth). When Charlie is too hung over to make it to court for the hearing, Richard fills in -- and must continue impersonating him for the whole trial.
Plot Keywords: comedy, courtroom, lawyer, rural, small town, misunderstanding, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The head writer (John Candy) of a soap opera dreams he's a character in it, romancing two women (Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms) in the plot.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, romantic comedy, new york, broadway, theater ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) takes his young and impressionable grandson (Jackson Nicoll) on a cross-country trip in which they encounter male strippers, biker-bar patrons and other unsuspecting citizens.
Plot Keywords: comedy, prank, mockumentary, adult humor, vulgar, absurd, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) is a patient at a mental institution who gets an unexpected shot at freedom when circumstances find him mistaken for a colleague of Dr. George Maitlin (Charles Grodin). Sneaking out of the facility, Burns poses as his psychiatrist on a radio show in Los Angeles, which leads to great ratings for the program. Burns also finds a new friend in homeless eccentric Donald Becker (Walter Matthau), but his good times are threatened when Maitlin discovers the ruse.
Plot Keywords: comedy, psychological, talk show, madness, deception, therapy, celebrity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In order to win a scholarship, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell), the white son of an affluent psychiatrist, pretends to be black on his application form. When he's accepted, he alters his hair, skin and speech to conceal his true identity. At first Mark believes that going through law school as a minority will be a breeze, but he soon begins experiencing racism. Eventually, Mark falls in love with Sarah Walker (Rae Dawn Chong), a black student, and begins to feel guilty about his ruse.
Plot Keywords: comedy, race, identity, law, discrimination, social satire, 1980s ...
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