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3 March 1989 (USA)
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A chilling, hilarious comedy. more
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Sunny is married to the butcher Ernie; their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs....
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Silly and dark farce; it got better as time passed
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Laura Alcalde | ... | Customer #2 |
| Madison Arnold | ... | Plumber #1 |
| Carmen Alvarez Block | ... | Mrs. Rifkin |
| Lisa Blount | ... | Phyllis |
 | Alan Blumenfeld | ... | Lew |
| Thomas Byrd | ... | Mr. Holstrom (as Tom Byrd) |
| Frederick Coffin | ... | Sgt. Haroldson |
| Richard Embardo | ... | Frankie |
 | Teri Garr | ... | Sunny |
| Carole Goldman | ... | Mrs. Colby |
| Debra Lamb | ... | Panetti's Dancer (as Deborah Lamb) |
 | James Lashly | ... | Cop #1 (as James Lashley) |
 | John Lithgow | ... | Dave |
| Ada Maris | ... | Customer #1 |
 | Bruce McGill | ... | Ernie |
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Where's Ernie? (Australia)
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Germany:88 min
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Protect and Serve
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Ernie and Dave were butchers in the army (during the opening credits photos of them in their uniforms, along with Sunny, are shown). They open their own butcher shop, and Ernie is married to Sunny. Ernie is abusive, and Sunny is cheating on him. And the door to the freezer in the butcher shop keeps closing and locking when someone is inside.
John Lithgow is at his best playing nervous characters who panic over every little thing. Of course, in this movie his character has plenty of reason to be nervous, and it doesn't help that Sunny is hiding some very important information from him. Teri Garr is not only good-looking but comes across as quite calm and pretty much in control. Randy Quaid is quite goofy as the detective Sunny hires to help her divorce Ernie. Like Dave, the detective also thinks he knows something that we know isn't true, and the results can be quite funny.
This wasn't all that great at first, but as the situations got sillier, I was really enjoying it. I've seen better movies like this, but this was pretty good.