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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790705491 Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790705494 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 24, 1994 Running Time: 106 minutes Sales Rank: 25136 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1982
Amazon.com essential video: Ron Howard's breakthrough film as a director launched Michael Keaton as a screen comic. In this film, he is teamed with a hangdog Henry Winkler as a pair of night attendants at a city morgue. Thinking entrepreneurially, Keaton (as the flakier half of the team) convinces a reluctant Winkler that they could kill two birds with one stone and use their quiet surroundings to start a call-girl business. The first girl in the stable of these unlikely pimps: Shelley Long, pre-Cheers. Given the rather tasteless subject matter (ever really met a happy hooker?), it's surprisingly good fun, ignited by the chemistry between the nebbish Winkler and the jet-propelled Keaton, who seized this role and used it to shoot him to stardom--and into several years of stinkers. Meanwhile, the film was supposed to help Winkler segue from the Fonz on Happy Days to a career acting in movies, but whatever happened to him? --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Funny Flick
I didn't know about this movie before meeting my husband, but I really enjoyed it the first time I saw it. It was very entertaining and quirky. Not your typical comedy.
Rating: - Good, fun movie!!!
Saw this movie when it first came out YEARS ago and laughed like crazy! Still packs the same comedic punch!
Rating: - "This is Chuck reminding Bill to SHUT UP!!"
I'm surprised by the number of people that can quote Animal House and Caddy Shack inside and out, but never saw this movie. The other 5-Star reviews do a great job capturing the fun and charm of this movie, which at it's heart is a romantic comedy, but don't let that fool you! Keaton, Winkler and Long make a wonderfully endearing and hilarious team. Darn good little story too-- well crafted and doesn't fizzle at the end like most comedic movies do.
And if I had to pick just one comedy from this era (other than Animal House), it'd be this one hands down even over the other well-known ... Read More
Rating: - Keaton Sparkles
Michael Keaton is 2/3's of the show, ably supported by Da Fonz, add Eddie Murphy,and an interesting concept and you wish them well. Funny, captivating, and too bad it isn't legal. Legalize polygamy and prostitution and we'd have less wars for oil and more smiling men.
Rating: - Love this old classic...
What can you say about this move but awesome. loved it then, love it now.
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