Can twins successfully bring their parents back together? That sounds like the plot of “The Parent Trap,” but the similarities between that film and “Dicks: The Musical” (previously known as “F*cking Identical Twins“) end there. The new A24 film updates that old formula to instead present two adult businessmen with a similar secret. And with legendary director Larry Charles (“Seinfeld,” “Borat“) at the helm, expect this film to be full of laughs.
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Comedy writers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp lead the cast in “Dicks: The Musical,” as two businessmen who discover they’re twins and set up an ill-fated reunion with their long-lost parents. Here’s the film’s official synopsis, courtesy of A24:
Two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp) discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents, in this riotously funny and depraved musical from comedy icon Larry Charles.
“Dicks: The Musical” also stars Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang. It’s Megan Thee Stallion’s first film role after TV roles on “Good Girls” and “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” among others. As for Yang, the “Saturday Night Live” cast member plays God in the film.
So will “Dicks: The Musical” be another comedic hit for Larry Charles? It’s his first film since 2016’s little-seen “Army Of One,” but remember, this guy did “Borat” “Brüno,” and “The Dictator” with Sacha Baron Cohen, so expect his latest to be just as laugh-out-loud depraved. “Dicks: The Musical” hits theaters everywhere on September 29 before it premieres at TIFF earlier that month. Watch the first trailer for the film below.
