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Overview

User Rating:
4.8/10   657 votes
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Writer (WGA):
Patrick Cirillo (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
1 December 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
She's ruthless - He's witless - They're on the road together and falling apart at the seams more
Plot:
A retarded man get help from a sociopathic woman when tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Ragged but interesting more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

James Belushi ... Homer Lanza
Jim Mapp ... Harmonica Player

John Waters ... Robber #1
Robert Glaudini ... Robber #2
James Thiel ... Twin #1
Jeff Thiel ... Twin #2 (as Jeffrey Thiel)

Andy Jarrell ... Trucker
Anne Ramsey ... Edna

Whoopi Goldberg ... Eddie Cervi
Michelle Milantoni ... Fat Woman in Pizza Joint

Mickey Jones ... Man at Pizza Joint
Annie O'Donnell ... Wife at Pizza Joint
Katherine Barrese ... Waitress
Tad Horino ... Mickey

Karen Black ... Belle
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Final film of Fritz Feld. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Eddie spots the red car at the produce stand and tells Homer to pull in there, she is in the back seat. After they pull in they show her sitting in the front seat. more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Ragged but interesting, 10 May 2002
7/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Unusual film was wrongly advertised as a wacky comedy; it is actually a surprisingly sensitive and light-on-its-feet drama about friendship. Mentally backward man (James Belushi, in his best performance) hits the road with an escaped female mental patient named Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg) who has a brain tumor and keeps thinking she sees Jesus going by. Sort of a tragic love story between two unfortunate people that life threw away. Both stars are just fine, but the sloppy editing shows signs of an indecisive captain of the ship, and the blue-collar rock-n-roll on the soundtrack is irritating. Panned by just about everybody, I found a great deal of depth here, some scattershot laughs, and I was really moved by Belushi's matter-of-fact performance (no showing off) and his touching scene at the funeral. *** from ****

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