The Money Pit (1986)

[Edgy MD]

Alexander Godunov: 3.53

Tom Hanks: 2.88

Shelley Long: 1.58

Yakov Smirnoff: 0.67

Philip Bosco: 0.51

Josh Mostel: 0.29

Joe Mantegna: 0.27

Maureen Stapleton: 0.18

Body by Jake: 0.09



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I remember seeing this new in the theater and absolutely hating it. Was I wrong?

[Edgy MD]

It's very much (1) of it's time (despite a lack of gratuitous bewb shots), and (2) of a much earlier time, being a re-make of a 1948 Cary Grant/Myrna Loy film, and also incorporating comic stunts that were seemingly lifted straight out of a Buster Keaton silent.



It certainly asks you for some charity, but parts of it are golden. Whether you were wrong depends on how much nostalgia can trigger that charity, but probably mostly not.



Alexander Godunov was fantastic in his first three US films — Witness, The Money Pit, and Die Hard — at a time he could barely mouth out any English. He gets PotG for this one and is very much in the running for Die Hard.



A deep emotional investment? Yeah, that's probably not going to happen. But as a married dude and as a homeowner, you'll probably dip your foot in a little deeper than you did in 1986.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking, especially as this rain is leaking into the house through a shit window. I had zero interest in concerns of the Yuppie Class in '86. At the story, I can remember being more exasperated than entertained and don't recall what Gudenov did in this flick.

[Willets Point]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I remember seeing this new in the theater and absolutely hating it. Was I wrong?

I remember seeing this on cable circa 1987 and thinking it was beyond stupid. Not sure I can muster up enough goodwill to revisit it.

[Edgy MD]

Indeed. Some films, if they really need you to be revisit them, will manage to find you. You, the viewer, can't be expected to do all the work. But The Money Pit is currently an available featured download on Netflix.



Among the performers not figuring in the PotG voting above was a just-on-the-verge-of-their-brief-success White Lion, and a pre-Fisher King Michael Jeter.

[Willets Point]

I also hated Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House which seemed to be about the First World Problems of Yuppies before Yuppies were even defined. And I love Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. I felt bad for them being in that movie. I hope they were well-renumerated.

[Guest 41Forever]

This was my first date* with a girl I met in college. I remember thinking it was sad and didn't like it much. She married me anyway!



*She disputes whether this was an actual date. Lines are blurry in college. We'd already been going for pizza each week after our shifts on the newspaper.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I also did this on a date. She did not turn out to be my wife. In fact, she later became someone else's wife, if you can believe that shit.

[Fman99]

This movie is funny and I think it holds up. Agreed with Edgy, married homeowners would see the humor in this particularly.

[Vic Sage]

Slapstick is a maligned form. This was an excellent example of it. Its like watching the game MOUSETRAP, as you watch the ball roll, the wheel turn, the boot kick the bucket, and the trap come down.

It's about the movement of objects in space, cause and effect, and its cinema in its purest form. Story? Characters? not so much.

[MFS62]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I remember seeing this new in the theater and absolutely hating it. Was I wrong?

I felt/ feel the same way. I thought it was so bad I wouldn't be tempted to watch it again.

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