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Overview

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Director:
Richard Benjamin
Writer:
David Giler (written by)
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Release Date:
26 maaliskuu 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Music more
Tagline:
For everyone who's ever been deeply in Love or deeply in debt.
Plot:
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Hanks ... Walter Fielding, Jr.
Shelley Long ... Anna Crowley Beissart / Anna Fielding
Alexander Godunov ... Max Beissart, the Maestro

Maureen Stapleton ... Estelle

Joe Mantegna ... Art Shirk
Philip Bosco ... Curly
Josh Mostel ... Jack Schnittman
Yakov Smirnoff ... Shatov
Carmine Caridi ... Brad Shirk

Brian Backer ... Ethan
Billy Lombardo ... Benny
Mia Dillon ... Marika
John Van Dreelen ... Carlos
Douglass Watson ... Walter Fielding, Sr.
Lucille Dobrin ... Macumba Lady
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Rahareikä (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)

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Trivia:
The band White Lion performs twice in this movie with a line-up that was pre their debut album. The bass player joined Black Sabbath between this movie and White Lion's first album. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Walter is watching the fire go through the electrical system in the walls of the kitchen, the chunky liquid in the blender vanishes. more
Quotes:
Max: [to Walter] Do you realize what you've done? You've taken a woman who loves you, one of the great women in the world and thrown her away. I lost her too, but I will get over it because I am shallow and self-centered. But you, you wont, because you are "complex". You will feel terrible anguish for the rest of your life. This is turning out to be a pretty good day. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in FC Venus (2006) more
Soundtrack:
SITTIN' ON A DREAM more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Good Memories, 20 April 2006
9/10
Author: browall80 from Canada

I loved this movie. Granted, I was a teen when I first saw it, but even so, I laughed often and that is my standard of judgment. Shelley Long is as good as she was in Cheers (which is gooood). Tom Hanks shows off the early "Bosom Buddies" hopes of physical comedy genius here in a way that he never did again. The bee-attack scene to the flight of the Bumblebee violin solo is fabulous. the whole "We're Sitting on a Dream" sequence with the stairs and doorbell and raccoon and the bathtub is hilarious but PEOPLE. Come on. The entire collapsing stairs bit is the best, capped off by Hanks sweet little blown kiss at the end ... slayed me. My brother and I still reference it whenever everything is more crap than bearable, and we always will. I think this is an overlooked gem and will always have it in my video catalogue. Finally, a quote: Paint. Don't tickle. Alexander Gudonow will be missed.

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