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The Money Pit (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 9  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.8/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Synopsis: An updating of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE in which an up-and-coming entertainment lawyer takes the big step with his girlfriend and purchases a fixer-upper for a "steal." As it turns out, the "steal" is really a "rip-off" and everything that can go wrong, does.... An updating of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE in which an up-and-coming entertainment lawyer takes the big step with his girlfriend and purchases a fixer-upper for a "steal." As it turns out, the "steal" is really a "rip-off" and everything that can go wrong, does. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna

Director: Richard Benjamin
Producer: Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Art Levinson
Screenwriter: David Giler
Composer: Michel Colombier

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 4, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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07/07/06
JoBlo
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2.5/4

...enhanced by Hanks' increasingly hysterical and appropriately broad performance.

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02/25/06
David Nusair
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
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07/29/05
Jake Euker
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06/19/05
Emanuel Levy
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3/5

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02/11/05
Greg Maki
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1/5

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09/04/04
Randy Shulman
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08/30/04
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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3/5

Slapstick comedy about the problems that come with a couple's purchase of a dilapidated suburban house.

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08/26/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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2/5

Lacklustre star comedy.

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07/19/04
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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3/5

Memorably hilarious, with ace work by the two leads.

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06/20/04
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks
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3/5

Silly but engaging.

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06/05/04
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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4/5

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01/05/04
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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2/5

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07/18/03
Leonard Klady
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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film
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2/4

A stop-and-go feature that would kill as a short.

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02/22/03
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central
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12/01/02
Dan Jardine
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10/21/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/13/02
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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3/5

Sometimes having the right actors in the movie can make or break it....thankfully, Hanks and Long are good

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
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