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The Big Fix

  • 19781978
  • PGPG
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.3K
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Richard Dreyfuss in The Big Fix (1978)
ComedyMysteryThriller
An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Jeremy Kagan
  • Writer
    • Roger L. Simon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Richard Dreyfuss
    • Susan Anspach
    • Bonnie Bedelia
  • Director
    • Jeremy Kagan
  • Writer
    • Roger L. Simon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Richard Dreyfuss
    • Susan Anspach
    • Bonnie Bedelia
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 20User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss
    • Moses Wine
    Susan Anspach
    Susan Anspach
    • Lila
    Bonnie Bedelia
    Bonnie Bedelia
    • Suzanne
    John Lithgow
    John Lithgow
    • Sam Sebastian
    Ofelia Medina
    Ofelia Medina
    • Alora
    Nicolas Coster
    Nicolas Coster
    • Spitzler
    F. Murray Abraham
    F. Murray Abraham
    • Eppis
    Fritz Weaver
    Fritz Weaver
    • Oscar Procari Sr.
    Jorge Cervera Jr.
    • Jorge
    Michael Hershewe
    • Jacob
    Rita Karin
    • Aunt Sonya
    Ron Rifkin
    Ron Rifkin
    • Randy
    Larry Bishop
    Larry Bishop
    • Wilson
    Andrew Bloch
    Andrew Bloch
    • Michael Linker
    Sidney Clute
    Sidney Clute
    • Mr. Johnson
    John Cunningham
    John Cunningham
    • Hawthorne
    Frank Doubleday
    Frank Doubleday
    • Jonah's Partner
    Joyce Easton
    • Woman in Mercedes
    • Director
      • Jeremy Kagan
    • Writer
      • Roger L. Simon(screenplay) (novel)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Richard Dreyfuss broke his wrist just before shooting began. Rather than delay shooting, they worked his cast into the script.
    • Quotes

      Moses Wine: Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority.

    • Alternate versions
      The video release deletes Leon Redbone's "I want to be seduced" from the soundtrack.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: The Wiz/Who is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe?/Girlfriends/The Big Fix/Days of Heaven (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Seduced
      Words and Music by Gary Tigerman

      Arranged by Dick Halligan (as Richard Halligan)

      Sung by Leon Redbone

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    7/10
    Two levels of nostalgia pervade counterculture gumshoe thriller
    When it was released in 1978, there was already a distance built into The Big Fix, based on a detective novel set in the ashes of the counterculture. The story had been commissioned by Rolling Stone magazine from Roger L. Simon, who wrote the script. On its release, the film was already drawing on images of the late 60s that had ceased to be memories but had already entered a misty mythology.

    Richard Dreyfuss, fresh from the Spielberg hits (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) that had made him a star. not to mention his Academy Award for The Goodbye Girl), plays Moses Wine, aonetime rebel who has fallen on hardtimes. His wife, Bonnie Bedelia, has divorced him (though he dotes --rather tiresomely -- on his two sons), and he earns his keep as aprivate investigator when not smoking up and playing solitaire Clue in his -- there's no other word -- "pad."

    Operatives of a political campaign sign him on to find out who is waging a dirty-tricks campaign to link their candidate to a legendary radical, now disappeared deep into the underground. The story has some interesting twists, particularly those involving Susan Anspach, John Lithgow and F. Murray Abraham, but the plot tends to disappear into holes here and there, as though told in a marijuana haze.

    Viewed in the new millennium, The Big Fix unfolds behind two scrims of nostalgia: The one in the story itself, where 60s has-beens, unhappy with how the world has turned, yearn for barricades and love-ins; and the one revealed by the talents who made the movie, where that yearning for the heady days of the counterculture -- Berkeley! Vietnam! Hash brownies! -- has developed its own, peculiarly fusty period flavor.
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    • bmacv
    • Oct 16, 2001

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 6, 1978 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Der große Trick
    • Filming locations
      • Hall of Justice - 211 W. Temple Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA(Location)
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $3,800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,062,708
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,062,708
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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