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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN num: 9780783267890
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN number: 0783267894
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 5340
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1985
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Richard Pryor is Montgomery Brewster, a minor league baseball pitcher who discovers he has to blow $30 million on 30 days as a condition to inherit a much greater fortune. Here's the catch: He will forfeit everything if he reveals to a soul the real reason he seems to be throwing away all that cash. With the help of his pal Spike (John Candy), they set off on a frantic spending spree the likes of which would bring any self-respecting accountant to his knees.
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He's had some good performances in supporting parts, but Richard Pryor never starred in a film that captured his comic brilliance the way his concert films did--proving that magic isn't something you can bottle. This 1985 film is no exception, even though it was directed by Walter Hill three years after he turned Eddie Murphy into a movie star with 48 HRS. The seventh film reworking of a warhorse stage play, this movie stars Pryor and John Candy as a pair of minor-league baseball players whose best days are behind them. Then Pryor is informed that he's just inherited a fortune--$300 million. But it comes with a condition: he must spend $30 million in one month, with a number of rules about how much he can spend at one time and how many of any one thing he can buy. Both Pryor and Candy were at the top of their comedy game at this point in time but were utterly failed both by ham-handed direction and by a script that left them higher and drier than seems humanly possible, given the comic talents involved. --Marshall Fine
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PLOT
An amateur league baseball pitcher will inherit 300 million dollars from a distant relative on the proviso that he very first spend 30 million dollars in 30 days. Various other conditions are also made painfully clear.
REVIEW
A well-constructed cast including Richard Pryor and John Candy, and decent character actors of yesteryear such as Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach, Pat Hingle and Hume Cronyn, make the most of a great idea that is otherwise ill-served by a mediocre script and perfectly standard direction from the usually quite brilliant Walter Hill. Candy's chemistry with Pryor is very first rate - why Pryor instead chose Gene Wilder as his long-term comedic partner will forever remain a baffling mystery.
While Brewster's Millions is not the funniest film of the 80s, certainly there are moments of hilarity here. Watch for a side-splitting cameo from Rick Moranis.
ELEPHANT STAMPS
None.
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I had watch this movie from in the nineties and always tell my two sons about it.I use to have it on video tape, but the cassette was destroy by the eldest of the two when he was a baby, so I did have to get it back to show them (they love movies). This movie is a family movie, we enjoy it at lot. Five stars for it 5 Stars*****
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BE sure to watch this if you hit the lottery. Better to let Richard Prior make the mistakes and not you. Funny entertaining. A lot of fun to watch.
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Okay, this is a little embarrassing. But Limit Up is a film I co wrote and directed, and some knucklehead attached the wrong reviews to my film. My film is about a runner at the Chicago Board of Trade (Nancy Allen, Robocop) who sells her soul to the devil (Danitra Vance) to be a successful soybean trader. Her boss (Dean Stockwell) tries to thwart her, her boyfriend (Brad Hall) tries to help her, and his boss (Rance Howard) pitches in. Ray Charles plays God, a sax player who stands in front of the CBOT, and depending if you tip him or not, that's how well you're going to do that day. Its subplot is ending world hunger through manipulating soybean prices. That's it. It's funny (B+ from Ent. Weekly) and worth a shot.
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This movie was in great condition, shipping was fast. I would definitely work with this seller again. I highly recommend them to all.
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