Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones, all in one crime-comedy film. If you haven’t checked out the trailer for The Comeback Trail yet, you could be missing out on one of the most respectable casts of the year.
A remake of the 1982 film of the same name, The Comeback Trail features De Niro and Zach Braff as a pair of down-on-their-luck 1970s movie producers who bet everything on a morbid insurance scam. If the aging and reckless actor (Tommy Lee Jones) they’ve cast in their western happens to die, they’ll collect a nifty payout. What could go wrong?
The Comeback Trail is currently screening in Australian cinemas; visit here for session times.
Hollywood movies about Hollywood always have a special shine to ’em, and this one’s focus on the stagey world of westerns is particularly tantalising. Watch the trailer below to check out three Academy Award winning actors playing movie folks who are decidedly less glamorous and successful.
If Tommy Lee Jones’ handlebar moustache hasn’t won you over by this point, consider that the movie is kind of a movie grandpa take on The Producers. But without songs. And with more accidental murder.
