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5.7/10   1,051 votes
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Director:
Michael Schultz
Writers:
Steven Vail (story)
John Thomson (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
21 December 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Winner takes all!
Plot:
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
This film is quite well done and very funny more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
116 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:PG | USA:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Clevon Little and the other servants pull up to rob the grocery store with a fake gun to steal the cash register, the sign on the store reads, "Crown Point Market". Crown Point, Indiana was the town where real life gangster John Dillinger famously broke out of jail using a fake gun. more
Quotes:
Charles Bernstein: I'm Charles Bernstein. Attorney for the late Milton Parker.
Marvin Dummitz: You mean someone else is late now?
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Movie Connections:
References A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) more
Soundtrack:
There's Enough For Everyone more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
This film is quite well done and very funny, 15 August 2004
7/10
Author: haruuj from United States

I love "Scavenger Hunt." I saw it on HBO when I was a kid and have remembered lines and bits from it well into my adulthood. I had not seen the film for 20 years when I remembered it and rented the videotape. I was charmed again as I watched with my wife, and we both laughed at the wonderful gags. The climax is terrific. As all fans of this film probably know, this is an underrated classic and is available only on VHS, and even that is hard to find. This film is very clever, and not at all "cheesy." I can't understand why people think 'Spaceballs' or the disgusting Austin Powers movies are funny, but a film like 'Scavenger Hunt' surpasses those kind of films by being hilarious without resorting to the desperate potty humor so prevalent in so-called recent comedies.

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