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The Money Pit

1986

Richard Benjamin

Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton ...

6.0

25,301

Comedy Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it falls apart, starting with the stairway collapsing to the bathtub falling through the floor to eventually the chimney falling into the house! ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The comedy depends entirely on special electrical effects and outlandish physical gags (...) The spectacle is so impressive that you hesitate to laugh."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One gag does not a comedy make, and if they had spent the time on the characters that they spent on building the house, they might have really had something (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Rob Dean AV Club	"It’s not high art or sophisticated humor, but there are just enough clever turns in its physical comedy and insight into relationships to give it a bit of cult status for the past 30 years."
		Chris Peachment Time Out	"Richard Benjamin has the rare gift of knowing just where the funnybone lies, a certain taste for Keaton-esque slapstick, and a very fine comic performer in Hanks."
		Ian Nathan Empire	"You have to congratulate the art director and his team for their imploding household (...) This has some very, very funny bits... interspersed with a very slight film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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