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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) -- John Candy is bigger, better and more bumbling than ever as an often incompetent, and sometimes ingenious private dick determined to crack a kidnapping case.
Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) -- Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Robert Conte (written by) &
Peter Martin Wortmann (written by)
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Release Date:
3 February 1989 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Nerves of steel. Body of iron. Brain of stone.
Plot:
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping. full summary | add synopsis
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Hilarious. Get the movie and have a good evening. more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Candy ... Harry Crumb

Jeffrey Jones ... Eliot Draisen

Annie Potts ... Helen Downing

Tim Thomerson ... Vince Barnes

Barry Corbin ... P.J. Downing

Shawnee Smith ... Nikki Downing
Valri Bromfield ... Detective Casey
Doug Steckler ... Dwayne
Renée Coleman ... Jennifer Downing (as Renee Coleman)

Wesley Mann ... Tim the Butler
Tamsin Kelsey ... Marie Cannell

Joe Flaherty ... Doorman
Fiona Roeske ... Crumb Receptionist
Lori O'Byrne ... Karen
Michele Goodger ... Mrs. MacIntyre (as Michelle Goodger)
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98 min
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #29425) | France:U | UK:12 (uncut version) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:11 | West Germany:12 | UK:PG (cut) | Australia:M

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Crew or equipment visible: While speaking with Mrs. MacIntyre, oranges are falling off of Harry's tree in his office, the first one that falls, you can see a crew member's hand briefly as it swipes it off the table to "assist" it falling to the floor. more
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Harry Crumb: I am Djour Djilios.
Suki's Salon Receptionist: Could you spell that please?
Harry Crumb: I don't think so. Try it with a "D".
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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Hilarious. Get the movie and have a good evening., 20 September 1999
Author: Daniel Spires from Columbus, Ohio

Barry Corbin, as multi-millionaire (does this guy have any other roles?) P.J. Downing, performs as the mystified victim rather well, always surprised with Harry's (John Candy) easy wit and wisdom, never realizing for a moment that the man is just as lost as anyone else in this case. Comedy, per se, is not on the screen, but rather in the heart. As a man with an eidetic memory who couldn't sleuth his way out of an open phone booth, Harry Crumb cleverly deciphers the clues and incorrectly solves the case, which ends up releasing all the right answers and surprising himself more than anybody else. Harry Crumb is the greatest criminal investigator the world has ever known -- just ask his sidekick, Nikki Downing, the millionaire's youngest daughter, played by a very effective Shawnee Smith.

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