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User Rating:
4.9/10   2,230 votes
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Director:

Rod Daniel

Writer (WGA):

Sam Simon (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

4 October 1991 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy more

Tagline:

The judge sentenced slumlord Louie Kritski to six months in his own building. He would have been better off in jail. more

Plot:

Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

1 nomination more

User Comments:

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joe Pesci ... Louie Kritski
Vincent Gardenia ... Big Lou Kritski
Madolyn Smith Osborne ... Naomi Bensinger

Rubén Blades ... Marlon (as Ruben Blades)

Stacey Travis ... Heather

Carole Shelley ... Irene Kritski
Kenn Michael ... Tito (as Kenny Blank)
Paul Benjamin ... Gilliam
Beatrice Winde ... Leotha
Bhubeshi Bodibe ... Goode
Abdoulaye NGom ... Stubbs (as Abdoulaye N'Gom)
Carol Jean Lewis ... Eleanor

Anthony Heald ... Ron Nessim
Daniel Baltzman ... Young Louie
Jack Hallett ... Young Big Lou
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Additional Details

Runtime:

84 min | USA:95 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Alpine, New Jersey, USA more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Final performance of Vincent Gardenia. more

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Reflected in the window of Big Lou's car after telling his son about leaving to Tahiti. more

Quotes:

Big Lou Kritski: Heather, can I ask you something? How far did you go in school?
Heather: Oh, well when I was in high school I wouldn't even let a guy touch me. But when I got to community college, I turned pretty wild.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in How to Use Dianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Human Mind (1992) (V) more

Soundtrack:

Da Butt more


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3 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
(shudder), 24 October 2003
3/10
Author: illharmonics00

in this movie, joe pesci slams dunks a basketball. joe pesci...

and being consistent, the rest of the script is equally not believable.

pesci is a funny guy, which saves this film from sinking int the absolute back of the cellar, but the other roles were pretty bad. the father was a greedy businessman who valued money more than people, which wasn't even well-played. instead of the man being an archetypal villain, he seemed more like an amoral android programmed to make money at all costs. then there's the token piece that is assigned to pesci as a girlfriend or something...i don't even remember...she was that forgettable.

anyone who rates this movie above a 5 or 6 is a paid member of some sort of film studio trying to up the reputation of this sunken film, or at least one of those millions of media minions who can't critique efficiently (you know, the people who feel bad if they give anything a mark below 6).

stay away...far away. and shame on comedy central, where i saw this film. they usually pick better.

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