Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson star in Larry Charles' adaptation of their off-Broadway musical, alongside Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion.
by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, was the perfect film to kick off the section, said Kuplowsky, because it is a film “where love is love and dicks are dicks!”
Sharp and Jackson reprise their roles in the film version, as two business adversaries who realize they are actually long-separated identical twin brothers.-like, they decided to reunite their divorced parents — played, phenomenally OTT, by Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane —so they all can become an actual family again. Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion co-star.
Then, ginning up the TIFF crowd, Jackson read out Charles’ final lines, calling on the audience to get ready to “freak out at a movie…scream and laugh and clap” at what he called “the most “anti-A.I., pro-human movie of the 21st century.” The Midnight Madness fans were ready to oblige. The crowd at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto whooped and hollered throughout the screening, breaking into spontaneous applause multiple times, including at a showstopping number by Megan Thee Stallion. At the closing credits, rainbow-colored ballons beach-balls, and at least one man-sized inflatable phallus, fell from the balconies above, making the screen feel like a rave.
A24 could hardly have hoped for a better launch pad for the film, which hits theaters in the U.S. on September 29.
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