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Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   3,631 votes
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Director:
Norman Jewison
Writers (WGA):
Jerry Sterner (play)
Alvin Sargent (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 October 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Meet Larry the Liquidator. Arrogant. Greedy. Self-centered. Ruthless. You gotta love the guy.
Plot:
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter... more | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
What Hollywood is Not Letting You See
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User Comments:
Very enjoyable movie more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Danny DeVito ... Lawrence Garfield

Gregory Peck ... Andrew Jorgenson

Penelope Ann Miller ... Kate Sullivan
Piper Laurie ... Bea Sullivan

Dean Jones ... Bill Coles

R.D. Call ... Arthur

Mo Gaffney ... Harriet
Bette Henritze ... Emma

Tom Aldredge ... Ozzie
Leila Kenzle ... Marcia
Cullen O. Johnson ... Gus
William De Acutis ... Pfeiffer

David Wells ... Granger
Stephanie White ... Angeli
Jeff Hayenga ... Klein (as Jeffrey Hayenga)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Riqueza ajena (USA: Spanish title) (video title)
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Connecticut, USA more

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Trivia:
The factory shown in the shots from across the river WAS located in Georgetown, Connecticut (part of Wilton/Redding/Ridgefield CT), and was vacant for years after operating as a brass and wire plant for over 100 years and a local landmark. The skeleton of the plant is still standing and is in the process of being developed as a large commercial and residential development. more
Quotes:
Lawrence Garfield: Since when do you have to be hungry to have a doughnut? It don't taste better that way. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Other People's Honey (1991) (V) more

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27 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
Very enjoyable movie, 23 October 2003
8/10
Author: c16031 from Montreal

When I'm in the mood for a movie, I usually go to IMDB to check out it's rating. I try to avoid seing movies below a rating of 7. Who's got time to lose listening to a bad movie, right?

Then, as I surf IMDB, I sometimes wander around checking other user's impressions of movies I've seen, I'm curious that way. And as I do that, I can also get a feel of the credibility I can give the rating system.

Well, the rating I saw for "Other People's Money" blew my mind! I can't believe it has such a low rating. It's one of my favorite movies. I love the script, the clashing of ideas and values. I love the characters, the're very representative, opinionated, true and strong, and they're very well played. The movie's full of strong scenes: Garfield's first visit to the New England Wire's Co ("I like round numbers"), Garfield's chewing of his lawyer's ("You know what happens when the commies take over, the first thing they do is shoot all the lawyers!"), and of course the stockholder's meeting scene which alone is worth the whole movie. It is one of my most memorable movie scenes ever. I seriously have a hard time finding flaws in this movie.

I've read reviews about how it wasn't true to the play - I didn't even know it started out, or was based on a play. I guess a lot of IMDB voters were disappointed in the treatment this movie made of the play and accordingly gave a bad score. My point is: so what? A movie should be judged upon what it is, not what it could or should have been. It deserves to be evaluated fairly as a "whole", not in relation to doubtful and personal expectations. I hate biased ratings.

After seing the score this movie got on IMDB, I've lost a lot of faith in the value of using the rating system as a bearing for movies I'll want to see. My advice: don't be fooled. See this movie and judge for yourself.

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