Trailer - The Polish Brothers' 'Manure'

On a couple of occasions, I've had a chance to sit down with twin filmmakers Mark and Michael Polish, better known to us all as The Coen Brothers. What? No. Sorry - they're obviously the Polish Brothers. You might know them by their unbelievably unique films more than their own name. There's Twin Falls, Idaho, The Astronaut Farmer, and the extremely rich Northfork, which was probably a little too left afield. The brothers are back, taking their show to Sundance in a couple of weeks with a new comedy entitled Manure. Guess what it's about? Yep. The story is pretty simple to follow: A widow ( Tea Leoni) inherits her husbands successful manure company and has to fight off a hostile takeover by a rival in the fertilizer business ( Kyle MacLachlan). Billy Bob Thornton co-stars, playing the top manure salesman in the company. There's a proud honor, huh? Check out the trailer for the Sundance-bound Manure, courtesy of Trailer Addict: Oh yeah, even though this is at Sundance, it's a non-competition film. So it can't win any prizes or anything. But being in this category puts the film in a really high category, which should help lead to word of mouth for its 2009 release if it's on par with the brothers' other work.

Comments

[Laura Petersen]

The Polish brothers are quite nice. I would support any film directed by and/or starring Mark or Michael. And I love that they're working with Billy Bob again. He was very cool and super nice to all my film geek friends.

[Get The Big Picture]

Yeah, in my three encounters with Billy Bob, he's a hell of a nice guy. And you can ask him absolutely anything.