Two-time Tony winners Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to their iconic roles as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a scheming theatrical producer and his neurotic accountant, who hit upon the perfect plan to make a fortuneion Broadway. Theorizing that many Broadway producers get rich by raising outside capital to finance expensive shows and walk away with huge fees even if the show flops, Bialystock and Bloom set out to find the perfect material to burn their backers and get rich. And what better to ensure a closing notice on opening night than a "musical romp" celebrating the life and high times of modern history's most reviled figure: "Springtime for Hitler." But the producers find out the hard way that one man's bad taste is another's breakthrough in art, and their show is hailed as a toast-of-the-town sensation.

Joining Lane and Broderick in the film are Thurman as Ulla, the Swedish secretary-islash-receptionist and would-be showgirl, and Ferrell as Franz Liebkind, a neo-Nazi playwright and pigeon fancier responsible for conceiving the "worst play ever written."

Also reprising their celebrated supporting roles from Broadway are Tony winners Gary Beach and Roger Bart as theatrical director Roger DeBris and his common-law assistant Carmen Ghia.