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The Money Pit

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The Money Pit (1986)

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Average Rating:4.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: An updating of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE in which an up-and-coming entertainment lawyer takes the big step with his girlfriend and purchases a fixer-upper for a "steal." As it turns out,... An updating of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE in which an up-and-coming entertainment lawyer takes the big step with his girlfriend and purchases a fixer-upper for a "steal." As it turns out, the "steal" is really a "rip-off" and everything that can go wrong, does. [More]

Starring: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton

Starring: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, Josh Mostel, Yakov Smirnoff, Carmine Caridi, Brian Backer, Billy Lombardo, Mia Dillon, John Van Dreelen, Douglass Watson, Lucille Dobrin, Tetchie Agbayani, Frankie R. Faison, Mike Starr, White Lion

Director: Richard Benjamin

Director: Richard Benjamin
Producer: Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Art Levinson
Screenwriter: David Giler
Composer: Michel Colombier

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Derek Adams
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Silly but engaging.

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...enhanced by Hanks' increasingly hysterical and appropriately broad performance.

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02/25/06
David Nusair
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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
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New York Times
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Slapstick comedy about the problems that come with a couple's purchase of a dilapidated suburban house.

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08/26/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Lacklustre star comedy.

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07/19/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Memorably hilarious, with ace work by the two leads.

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06/20/04
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Leonard Klady
Leonard Klady
Movie City News

A stop-and-go feature that would kill as a short.

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