Finders Keepers (1984)

On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He ... See full summary »

Director:

Richard Lester

Writers:

Charles Dennis (novel), Charles Dennis (screenplay),

Stars:

Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett Jr.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael O'Keefe	...	Michael Rangeloff
Beverly D'Angelo	...	Standish Logan
Louis Gossett Jr.	...	Century
Pamela Stephenson	...	Georgiana Latimer
Ed Lauter	...	Josef Sirola
David Wayne	...	Stapleton
Brian Dennehy	...	Frizzoli
Jack Riley	...	Ormond
John Schuck	...	Police Chief Norris
Timothy Blake	...	Estelle Norris
Jim Carrey	...	Lane Bidlekoff
Robert Clothier	...	Art Bumbalee
Jayne Eastwood	...	Anna-Marie Biddlecoff
Alf Humphreys	...	Mulholland
Barbara Kermode	...	Isadore Frizzoli

Storyline

On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.

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Plot Keywords:

train | moving a building | independent film | based on novel

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Taglines:

The maddest, funniest money chase ever!

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 May 1984 (USA)

Also Known As:

Achado Não É Roubado

Filming Locations:

High River, Alberta, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Entertainment Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Did You Know?

Quotes

Lane Biddlecoff: I wouldn't have deserted if you had kept me out of the draft.
Frizzoli: What draft? YOU ENLISTED!

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Connections

Referenced in Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

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Soundtracks

"I Get Around"
(uncredited)
Written by Mike Love and Brian Wilson

User Reviews

This movie should be in DVD

I saw this movie on HBO in 1985, taped it and watched it again and again over the years. It's a wonderful screwball comedy, and Michael O'Keefe is great as the con man character who's trying to pass himself off as a soldier taking his dead buddy's casket home for burial.

I would have thought it would have found its way to DVD long before this, even if only because it was Jim Carrey's first real movie role. His part is small -- only a couple of scenes -- but it was easy to see he was going to be a big comic star.

Other great actors in it were Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett Jr, Ed Lauter and Brian Dennehy. And who could ever forget Dennehy's great line when he says the mother of the dead soldier is "prostate with grief?" It's also the only movie I can remember that used Don McLean's "American Pie" over the closing credits.

Please, let's get this out on DVD.