Big Trouble

Name: Big Trouble
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-05-30
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo

1986
R
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

1.6K

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Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.

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Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.

Directors
- John Cassavetes
- Andrew Bergman
Writer
- Andrew Bergman
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- John Cassavetes
- Andrew Bergman
Writer
- Andrew Bergman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Making this film cost Columbia Pictures the opportunity to make one of the most successful films of the 1980s. Just as the film was set to go into production, Columbia executives learned that the film could not be made unless they got the authorization of Universal. The legal department determined that "Big Trouble" was a remake of Double Indemnity (1944), which the latter studio owned. Universal's then-current head was Frank Price, who formerly ran Columbia. He was willing to give Columbia the remake rights to "Double Indemnity" under one condition - they would give Universal the rights to a sci-fi script that had caught his fancy at Columbia that the current management was sitting on. The trade was successful. Columbia was able to make "Big Trouble," which bombed, while the sci-fi film they passed on to Universal, Back to the Future (1985), was a great success.

Quotes
Leonard Hoffman: Fourteen thousand dollars a year, multiply that by three, that's forty-two thousand dollars a year tuition. They want two hundred thousand dollars to send three kids to Yale for four years.

Crazy credits
The 1976 Columbia "Sunburst" logo, complete with its audio, is used on this film instead of the studio's then-current 1981 logo.

Connections
Referenced in Ghost Dad (1990)

Soundtracks
Happy Brithday to You
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill

cast gets together again... pretty good caper!

Total parody of "Double Indemnity", with some added twists. The awesome, hilarious team of A. Arkin and P. Falk are together again, seven years after the under-rated "In-Laws". Beverly D'Angelo is "Blanche", the Barbara Stanwyck wife, looking to knock off the husband. Arkin is "Leonard", the insurance salesman, trying to put his sons through Yale. Falk is "Steve", the husband. Robert Stack is Leonard's boss, who refuses to help with the college bills. If you're a big fan of Falk and/or Arkin, you'll LOVE this film; they spend the whole time trying to outdo each other in the over-acting department. Also keep an eye out for Richard Libertini, also from the In-Laws; others will know him as the guru in All of Me (Edwina, Back in Bowl ) and Charles Durning (Tootsie). Written (copied/parodied ?) by Andrew Bergman, who certainly knew comedy... he had written the original In-Laws, Blazing Saddles, Soapdish, and Fletch!

Directed by John Cassevetes, who had done a bunch of stuff with Peter Falk already. Seems like quite a departure for Cassevetes... he had always done serious, pretty rough dramas. Fun stuff. On DVD. Never see this one shown on TV for some reason.