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Summary: Why No Soundtrack?
Review: OK, who knows the name of the song (& artist) that is played over the closing credits? the best part of the movie..
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Summary: Why No Soundtrack?
Review: OK, who knows the name of the song (& artist) that is played over the closing credits? the best part of the movie..
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Summary: Underrated Near-Masterpiece
Review: Robin Williams is so sleazy in this movie that it's easy to dislike the film, but it's a fine performance with great chemistry between him and Tim Robbins. Lots of laughs, and in the end, it turns out to be quite a "feel-good" movie. Watch it more than once... it keeps getting funnier!
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Summary: Robin Williams most underrated film
Review: Robin Williams is so sleazy in this movie that it's easy to dislike the film, but it's a fine performance with great chemistry between him and Tim Robbins. Lots of laughs, and in the end, it turns out to be quite a "feel-good" movie. Watch it more than once... it keeps getting funnier!
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Summary: Ex-Mork turns to selling cars!
Review: Robin Williams,the brilliant comedian who delighted audiences starring on the ABC sitcom "Mork & Mindy",is a car salesman named Joey O'Brien. Joey is divorced with a teenage daughter who lives with her mother and Joey's ex-wife Tina(Pamela Reed). Joey also is having an affair with a married woman,Joy Munchack(pre-The Nanny Fran Drescher). First,Joey helps a funeral director place a coffin inside a pick-up truck,with the new widow nearby. Joey sells the widow a car before her husband's interment. "You sleaze! You are the scum of the earth!",the widow tells Joey. Tim Robbins is Larry,the violently crazy husband of Donna(Annabella Sciorra),one of Joey's co-workers. All hell breaks loose at Turgeon Auto when Larry crashes through the establishment's windows via his motorcycle with a semi-automatic gun in hand. He wants to kill the guy who's having an affair with Donna. Larry holds everybody at TA hostage,even Joey. Joey confessed to Larry,that Joey was having an affair with Donna. Joey has two other problems. He has to sell 12 cars by closing time to keep the business alive and his and Tina's daughter Lisa is missing. Joey confuses Lisa with Lila(Lori Petty),Joey's freaky fashion designer girlfriend. Happily,Lisa safely returns with her boyfriend Louie. Director Roger Donaldson previously directed Tom Cruise in 1988's COCKTAIL. If you love cars,this film is for you.
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Summary: Ex-Mork turns to selling cars!
Review: Robin Williams,the brilliant comedian who delighted audiences starring on the ABC sitcom "Mork & Mindy",is a car salesman named Joey O'Brien. Joey is divorced with a teenage daughter who lives with her mother and Joey's ex-wife Tina(Pamela Reed). Joey also is having an affair with a married woman,Joy Munchack(pre-The Nanny Fran Drescher). First,Joey helps a funeral director place a coffin inside a pick-up truck,with the new widow nearby. Joey sells the widow a car before her husband's interment. "You sleaze! You are the scum of the earth!",the widow tells Joey. Tim Robbins is Larry,the violently crazy husband of Donna(Annabella Sciorra),one of Joey's co-workers. All hell breaks loose at Turgeon Auto when Larry crashes through the establishment's windows via his motorcycle with a semi-automatic gun in hand. He wants to kill the guy who's having an affair with Donna. Larry holds everybody at TA hostage,even Joey. Joey confessed to Larry,that Joey was having an affair with Donna. Joey has two other problems. He has to sell 12 cars by closing time to keep the business alive and his and Tina's daughter Lisa is missing. Joey confuses Lisa with Lila(Lori Petty),Joey's freaky fashion designer girlfriend. Happily,Lisa safely returns with her boyfriend Louie. Director Roger Donaldson previously directed Tom Cruise in 1988's COCKTAIL. If you love cars,this film is for you.
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Summary: A Comic Hostage Drama?
Review: That's the basic problem. This film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy or a hostage drama.The acting is really pretty good -- how can it not be with Robin Williams, Tim Robbins and Fran Drescher? But the audience never knows whether to laugh or cry. Five stars for creativity and taking a big chance. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
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Summary: Pretty Funny
Review: This is a relatively funny movie about a car salesman who has several women on the side. The movie turns very serious when williams' and sciorra's lives are threatened by robbins.
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Summary: Typical Robin Williams Junk
Review: This is not a funny movie -- unless you enjoy using a person's personal problems as a vehicle for scenes of gratuitous sex and violence, and a lot of barely humorous wisecracks. It's a typical Robin Williams movie; how many times do you need to see him try to cackle and doubletalk his way through some serious situations in his lame attempts at humor? Robin Williams is not a comedian, and certainly is not a serious actor, which leaves no reason to view these pointless films.
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