Dicks: The Musical movie storyline. Larry Charles (Borat) conducts an uproarious musical-comedy riff on The Parent Trap that follows a pair of identical twins who conspire to reunite their divorced and disturbingly deranged parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally).
There’s no business like show business — except perhaps the business of selling the bristles and brushes for robot vacuums, a cutthroat industry that pits “confident heterosexual” salesmen like Craig and Trevor against each other on a daily basis. But before Craig can shove a hose in Trevor’s mouth and turn on the water, these two big-dicked blowhards come to the startling realization that they are fucking identical twins raised apart since birth.
Fortunately, these are the perfect conditions to mount an old-fashioned parent trap, and so the pair swap lives to restore the nuclear family that they have long been denied. But can love still bloom between their eccentric mother (Megan Mullally), who is so old she carries her vagina around in a purse, and their closeted father (Nathan Lane), who is obsessively preoccupied with cannibalistic, humanoid, underground-dwelling sewer boys? Hey, I ain’t bringing around a cloud to rain on their parade, not with songs this catchy and choreography that features Megan Thee Stallion domming worker drones as she lays down bars about how she “out-alphas the alphas” in her midst.
Yes, Dicks: The Musical is a full-blown movie musical and it is proudly queer as fuck. Narrated by God (Bowen Yang) and adapted from a two-man stage show by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who turn in memorably manic performances as the titular twinsome dicks, this all-singing, all-dancing madness is also directed by comedy royalty Larry Charles (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat), so you can count on uproarious 11 o’clock numbers so unhinged, they go all the way to midnight.
Dicks: The Musical is a 2023 American musical comedy film directed by Larry Charles, based on the off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson. It had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2023. On September 29, 2023, it is scheduled to be released in the United States by A24, as the company’s first musical film.
Directed by: Larry Charles
Starring: Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang, Nathan Lane, Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, Nick Offerman, Danielle Perez, Sonya Eddy, Tom Kenny, D’Arcy Carden
Screenplay by: Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson
Production Design by: Steven Wolff
Cinematography by: Michelle Lawler
Film Editing by: Al LeVine
Costume Design by: Valerie Klarich
Set Decoration by: Prerna Chawla
Art Direction by: Madeleine Arellano
Music by: Marius de Vries, Karl Saint Lucy
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: A24 Films
Release Date: September 7, 2023 (TIFF), October 6, 2023 (United States)
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