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Big Trouble (1986)

Directed by John Cassavetes

Comedy

Overview

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn’t making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he’ll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.

Rated R | Length 93 minutes

Actors

Alan Arkin | Beverly D'Angelo | Peter Falk | Charles Durning | Robert Stack | Paul Dooley | Valerie Curtin | Richard Libertini | Steve Alterman | Jerry Pavlon | Paul La Greca | John P. Finnegan | Karl Lukas | Maryedith Burrell | Edith Fields | Rosemarie Stack | Barbara Tarbuck | Al White | Teddy Wilson | Gloria Gifford | Herb Armstrong | Jaime Sánchez | Gaetano Lisi | Chester Grimes | Irene Olga López | Daphne Eckler | Carol Reinhard | Conroy Gedeon | Leonard P. Geer | Melvin Jones | Luis Contreras | John M. Kochian Jr. | Domingo Ambriz | John Bianchini | Nafa Rasho | Roger Ito | Perry Fluker | Lynn Ready | Steven Lambert | Yukio G. Collins | Howard Clapp | Jeff Howard | Leland Sun | Al Leong | Danny Lew | Michaelani | Dennis Phun | Walter Soo Hoo | Richard Walter | Joseph G. Medalis | Gary Nastu | Michael Santiago | Warren Munson

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Viewing Notes

An 80s comedy I haven’t seen before but decided to watch (needing something fairly easy to watch via streaming and while working) was Big Trouble (1986) directed by John Cassavetes. This is another case of where the sum of the parts is outweighed by the individual parts to which I refer to the great actors but less than stellar movie. Helmed by Peter Falk and Alan Arkin this has the potential but suffers from the loose caper story. Still not bad.

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