Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as ...
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| Kirk Douglas | ... | ||
| Nancy Travis | ... | ||
| Olivia d'Abo | ... | ||
| Phil Hartman | ... | ||
| Ed Begley Jr. | ... | ||
| Jere Burns | ... | ||
| Colleen Camp | ... | ||
| Bob Balaban | ... | ||
| Joyce Hyser | ... | ||
| Mary Ellen Trainor | ... | ||
| Siobhan Fallon Hogan | ... |
Tina
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Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as stupid as his family thinks he is. He can see that his family is only nice to him because they want his money. Along comes Daniel McTeague, a struggling bowler, imported from another city by his family, to put an end to this ridiculous situation. The fight won't be easy, though, because the poor family has a little bit of competition - A beautiful nurse who takes care of Uncle Joe (and no doubt would love to take care of his bank account). Who gets all the money? Written by Michael Feller <reb@magna.com.au>
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Oh, sure they're two-faced, back-stabbing, money-grubbing, buck-chasing, brown-nosing, sniveling weasels. But hey...They're family. See more »Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 March 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Les héritiers affamés See more »Filming Locations:
Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USABox Office
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$13,145,977 (USA)Company Credits
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Little Carl: Here I am Uncle Joe.
Uncle Joe: Carl get in touch with reality.
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Written by Jimmy Durante and Ben Ryan
Performed by Jimmy Durante
Courtesy of Turner Entertainment, Inc.
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The name of the scrap metal company was "McTeague Scrap Metal". See more »Goofs
In the long shot of the bowling lanes they appear to be natural wood but in the close-ups, they are synthetic. See more »Quotes
Uncle Joe: Where's my special boy?Where's Uncle Joe's special boy?.Little Carl: Here I am Uncle Joe.
Uncle Joe: Carl get in touch with reality.
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Crazy Credits
The movie opens with a lengthy black and white sequence of Jimmy Durante performing "Inka Dinka Doo" from the 1944 film Two Girls and A Sailor, while the pink credits roll. See more »Soundtracks
Inka Dinka DooWritten by Jimmy Durante and Ben Ryan
Performed by Jimmy Durante
Courtesy of Turner Entertainment, Inc.
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Greedy has taken some of the plot situations in the Paramount classic If I Had A Million and carried them to incredible heights. It has a whole string of good performances topped off by one of the last performances by Kirk Douglas before he had his stroke.
Kirk plays the Richard Bennett part here, the millionaire who doesn't like almost all of his relatives, but gets a certain sadistic joy in seeing them perform like trained seals, trying to stay in his good graces. The only honest one of them is one of Ed Begley Jr.'s young sons who is just like that kid in If I Had a Million who started playing that record of I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You.
Unlike Bennett, Douglas does not decide to drop parts of his fortune on eight random strangers. He just keeps putting his family through their paces until they decide to dig up Michael J. Fox, a nephew he actually liked when he was a kid.
Fox is a second string professional bowler who's got a TV producer he's involved with, Nancy Travis. The two of them invade Douglas's three ring circus of relatives and get put through their paces also. All the family is against Douglas's 'nurse' Olivia D'Abo who the family is afraid will get the whole inheritance.
Greedy is a nicely paced amusing comedy which I think most of us can identify with. I know I've had a relative or two I can't stand either, but am forced to be nice to for a variety of reasons. The relatives are all greedy, but Douglas is one sadistic creep as well. I'd catch it the next time it's on the tube.