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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.
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Teddy Wilson
- Covington
- (as Theodore Wilson)
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- QuizLocation manager Ron [Ronald M. Quigley] scoured Los Angeles for the right kind of drive-in, only to find that nowhere in the megalopolis was one to be found. The solution was to locate a suitable parking lot and build the eatery to the specifications of the script. On a Brentwood corner lot, production designer Rodger Maus and his art and construction departments built a working drive-in dressed both inside and out with neon and jukeboxes, counter and kitchen. As soon as the building took shape, the local office personnel and residential neighbors began dropping by asking when it would open. They were very disappointed to learn that it wouldn't.
- BlooperWhen the thugs chase Spence and Dennis away from the racetrack in their car, they wind up crashing into a vending table full of stuffed toys with the collision seen in an interior shot. In the exterior shot that follows, the camera can be seen in the car's back seat.
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Dennis Powell: We're gonna die, Spence! We're gonna die!
Spence Holden: No we're not...
Dennis Powell: I still have orders!
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Temptations: A Fine Mess (1986)
- Colonne sonoreA Fine Mess
Written by Henry Mancini and Dennis Lambert
Produced by Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff for Ripe Productions
Performed by The Temptations
Recensione in evidenza
You can't blame Blake Edwards for making this kind of movie.
For years, he depended on the kind of pratfalls that course through "A Fine Mess" as his bread and butter, so to speak. They served the "Pink Panther" series well, and made Inspector Clouseau a world-wide reference point for the ultimate in clumsiness.
But for a movie that basically features two losers crossing the mob in a horse race then moving a piano to a rich lady's house, this film is all over the place. So many people introduced then forgotten, plot lines that go nowhere, laughs that are fun for the moment but have no context.
Shocking, really, this coming as it does from Blake Edwards, who once personified classy comedy with such works as the aforementioned "Panther" films, not to mention classics like "10", "Micki + Maude" and the under-appreciated "S.O.B.".
And with the calibre of talent, you'd expect great things; the manic Mandel, lecherous Danson, luxuriant Alonzo, and wackos like Mulligan and Margolin as mob flunkies all have the fire, but there's just nothing here to stoke the furnace.
There were separate moments here and there that gave me a smile but, like the movie itself, it just lives for the moment, then is gone.
TIDBIT - The idea for this movie actually came from a Laurel and Hardy short where Stan and Ollie try to move a huge piano up innumerable flights of stairs. Hence, the name.
It still is fitting: this movie is definitely a "Mess", if not a "Fine" one.
Three stars. Saved but for the virtue of Mulligan in the cast and a bit part for pre-"NYPD Blue" Franz.
For years, he depended on the kind of pratfalls that course through "A Fine Mess" as his bread and butter, so to speak. They served the "Pink Panther" series well, and made Inspector Clouseau a world-wide reference point for the ultimate in clumsiness.
But for a movie that basically features two losers crossing the mob in a horse race then moving a piano to a rich lady's house, this film is all over the place. So many people introduced then forgotten, plot lines that go nowhere, laughs that are fun for the moment but have no context.
Shocking, really, this coming as it does from Blake Edwards, who once personified classy comedy with such works as the aforementioned "Panther" films, not to mention classics like "10", "Micki + Maude" and the under-appreciated "S.O.B.".
And with the calibre of talent, you'd expect great things; the manic Mandel, lecherous Danson, luxuriant Alonzo, and wackos like Mulligan and Margolin as mob flunkies all have the fire, but there's just nothing here to stoke the furnace.
There were separate moments here and there that gave me a smile but, like the movie itself, it just lives for the moment, then is gone.
TIDBIT - The idea for this movie actually came from a Laurel and Hardy short where Stan and Ollie try to move a huge piano up innumerable flights of stairs. Hence, the name.
It still is fitting: this movie is definitely a "Mess", if not a "Fine" one.
Three stars. Saved but for the virtue of Mulligan in the cast and a bit part for pre-"NYPD Blue" Franz.
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- Budget
- 15.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 6.029.824 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 2.620.657 USD
- 10 ago 1986
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 6.029.824 USD
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By what name was Un bel pasticcio! (1986) officially released in Canada in English?
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