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The Money Pit (1986)

 -  Comedy | Music  -  26 March 1986 (USA)
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A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.

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Cast

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Max Beissart, the Maestro
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Art Shirk
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Curly
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Jack Schnittman
Yakov Smirnoff ...
Shatov
Carmine Caridi ...
Brad Shirk
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Ethan
Billy Lombardo ...
Benny
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Marika
John Van Dreelen ...
Carlos
Douglass Watson ...
Walter Fielding, Sr.
Lucille Dobrin ...
Macumba Lady
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Storyline

Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it falls apart, starting with the stairway collapsing to the bathtub falling through the floor to eventually the chimney falling into the house! Finally, they have to renovate the house before the frame collapses but the renovations also prove to be a disaster. Written by Michael Feller <reb@magna.com.au>

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house | couple | problem | renovation | diy | See more »

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For everyone who's ever been deeply in Love or deeply in debt.

Genres:

Comedy | Music

Certificate:

PG | See all certifications »

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Release Date:

26 March 1986 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

¿Hogar, dulce hogar?  »

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$37,499,651 (USA)
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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

The film was intended to be one of Universal's tent pole movies for Christmas 1985, but the film was pushed back to March of 1986. See more »

Goofs

There is ceiling plaster visible in Anna's hair before the plaster is shown to fall on her head. See more »

Quotes

Walter: [on the phone trying to locate a plumber] Hi! We're having a little trouble with our pipes, and I was - uh, Fielding, Walter Fielding... Well, there's no reason why should have heard of me... no, that's not a Jewish name... how much do I make a year? Well, how much do you make a year? Really!... Yale, I went to Yale...
[gets angry]
Walter: Look, get out of my life, would ya!
[slams the phone down]
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Connections

Referenced in Jeopardy!: Episode #16.37 (1999) See more »

Soundtracks

"MI ORQUESTRA"
Written by Julian Bargas
Performed by Los Tupamaros
Courtesy of Taurus Sound Distributors
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User Reviews

 
You'll almost die laughing!
4 September 2005 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

I remember seeing this film when it first came out on video to buy and I have never laughed so much in my life!

There are many outstanding physical comedy scenes but the staircase, kitchen and bathtub ones with Tom Hanks are truly hilarious and show him to be a great comic actor and had me crying with laughter and almost unable to breathe!

All these years later I now have the film on DVD (due to wearing out my video version) and have seen it so many times but still find it absolutely hysterical.

A terrific one and a half hours entertainment.... A MUST SEE!!


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