Release Date: May 30, 1986 Wide
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It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are respectively cast as a shady wheeler-dealer and an uptight family man. Strapped for the cash necessary to send his son to Yale, Arkin reluctantly enters into a murder scheme with Beverly D'Angelo. She is married to Falk, who, though he hasn't got long to live due to a heart ailment, may very well spend every penny D'Angelo has before he expires. Arkin is persuaded to kill Falk
May 30, 1986 Wide
Jul 22, 2003
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (3) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (3)
Cassavetes here applies his remarkable talent for social observation in a light-comedy context and creates one of the strangest, and in many ways most frustrating, screen comedies in recent years.
It's distressing that his last film, Big Trouble, appears to capitulate to just that sort of formula.
Sprawling comedy has a few laughs in it -- and the specter of recent events hanging over it.
Sporadic bits of humor can?t quite sustain the momentum of the film. It?s not awful, but it doesn?t stand out in any way. The cast is good but they lack enthusiasm. Bland, not funny enough.
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