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2.5/10   185 votes
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Director:
Les Rose
Writers:
Susan Scranton (story)
Dick Wolf (screenplay)
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Release Date:
July 1981 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
The comedy that pumps the fun into summer.
Plot:
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise... more | add synopsis
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Annoying, boring, all qualifications bad accepted here ! more (14 total)

Cast

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Susan Anspach ... Jane Beardsley
Howie Mandel ... Matt Lloyd
Sterling Hayden ... Duke Stuyvesant

Helen Shaver ... Rhonda
Sandee Currie ... Sarah Marshal
Peter Aykroyd ... Ed Marshal
Keith Knight ... Ira

Alf Humphreys ... Lou Picard
Philip Akin ... Lincoln Jones
Michael Hogan ... Guido Vespucci
Paul Kelman ... Nino Vespucci

Donald Sutherland ... Nick the Noz
Dustin Waln ... Earl Stuyvesant

Vlasta Vrana ... Baron Stuyvesant
Harvey Chao ... Lee Kwan
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Company:
Filmplan International more

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Soundtrack:
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2 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Annoying, boring, all qualifications bad accepted here !, 15 May 2003
Author: RealLiveClaude from Montreal, Canada

I was lucky enough to see the set of this picture in Montreal(by the way, most of it are torn down these days, among these: the two gas stations became Medical Clinics, the viaduct on Mountain Street is thorn down and now has housing, and the climatic end scene shot on the old LaSalle Coke fields is now a shopping mall...). The story seems promising, but when I saw the end result... Disappointing !

A boring, badly acted movie, very unpredictable, full of sexist and racist overtones (even Arabs are trashed here !) and one of the most tiresome and annoying car pursuits ever shot...

I pity everyone who participated in this. Even Donald Sutherland has done better... And the others ???? Gone with the torn sets and buildings which served for this "running on empty" turkey...

Another sad attempt to pass Montreal as an American city... Noticeable cardboard English signs over French ones and the false "Health Spa" set next to the Gas Station and that stupid statue... Producers learned from then....

A movie to forget...

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