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The Money Pit

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The Money Pit (1986)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:9

Rotten:10

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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Silly but engaging.

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06/05/04
Rich Cline
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05/24/03
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
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Sometimes having the right actors in the movie can make or break it....thankfully, Hanks and Long are good

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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

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02/25/06
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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

No review available.

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02/11/05
Greg Maki
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07/07/06
JoBlo
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Memorably hilarious, with ace work by the two leads.

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06/20/04
Nick Davis
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01/05/04
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Worth seeing just for Hanks' performance ... and very little else.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

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

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02/22/03
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
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12/01/02
Dan Jardine
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06/19/05
Emanuel Levy
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07/29/05
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Lacklustre star comedy.

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

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10/13/02
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Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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10/21/02
Philip Martin
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09/04/04
Randy Shulman
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Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
 
 
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