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4.6/10   141 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Joe Kierland (story) and
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Release Date:
26 November 1990 (USA) more
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Plot:
Two janitors (George Carlin, Ben Stiller) working as janitors at a brokerage firm become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage. | add synopsis
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Dated 80's Corny Comedy more (6 total)

Cast

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George Carlin ... Ralph

Ben Stiller ... Freddy Novak

Buddy Ebsen ... Vandevere Lodge

Leslie Hope ... Susan Fahnestock

Michael J. Pollard ... Palomar

Jack Blessing ... R. Judson Kimbrough

Dan Castellaneta ... George Agrande
Ellen Ratner ... Ruth
George Wallace ... Big Dan

Mindy Sterling ... Mary
Lisa Montgomery ... Vi

Michael Gregory ... Real Cop
Gregg Almquist ... Herb
Julian Christopher ... Moneyline Reporter

Newell Alexander ... News Reporter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Working Trash (USA) (alternative spelling)
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Runtime:
USA:120 min (including commercials)
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1.33 : 1 more
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This was the Fox network's first TV-movie. more
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Still Rockin' more

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Dated 80's Corny Comedy, 17 August 2006
5/10
Author: warmtrooper from Berkeley, CA

You can't blame George Carlin or Ben Stiller's acting--they did the best they could with the material. There were even some genuinely funny moments. The premise is interesting--2 janitors discover a way to make a killing in the stock market by digging through the trash of their brokerage offices.

But once they start making some money, the laughs become fewer as the movie turns into a version of the "inmates running the asylum" and lays on the working-class hero crap pretty thick. There are too many unbelievable scenarios that I felt the comedy was reaching quite hard to get a laugh. Nothing subtle here, even though the 2 main actors are capable of more.

The funniest guy in this movie was actually the prick stockbroker, who was supposed to be the straight man.

Avoid this one.

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