A relentless chase for money is the result of simple lunch at a remote diner.A relentless chase for money is the result of simple lunch at a remote diner.A relentless chase for money is the result of simple lunch at a remote diner.
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- 3 nominations
Tawny Fere' Ellis
- Faith
- (as Tawny Feré)
LaGena Lookabill
- Hope
- (as LaGena Hart)
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- TriviaGlad Bags and DeLaurentiis Entertainment co-sponsored a real-life million-dollar "treasure hunt" to coincide with this film's release. At the end of the movie, the cash is still missing, and moviegoers were invited to find the location of the hidden stash, using clues provided in the film. The sponsors also emphasized that the money wasn't PHYSICALLY hidden anywhere, lest anyone injure themselves or damage property while searching for the loot. The audience just had to GUESS where the money was hidden. Ticket buyers were even given game cards shaped like American currency, with a big photo of Dino De Laurentiis where the President should be. (The money was hidden in the bridge of the Statue of Liberty's nose.) In the end, it was a big disaster for the studio. The film was one of the major flops of the 1980s, barely grossing a million dollars at the box office, which the studio wound up forking over to the contest winner: a woman in Bakersfield, California.
- GoofsThe green car that Mr. & Mrs. Briggs steal is a Ford LTD, but in interior shots of the car, a Lincoln emblem is on the steering wheel.
- SoundtracksMillion Dollar Mystery
Written by Barry Mann and John Lewis Parker
Performed by New Money feat. James House
Featured review
Richard Fleischer's "Million Dollar Mystery" has essentially the same plot as Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Here a strange man (Tom Bosley of "Happy Days") dies in a diner and tells everyone in the vicinity that there's $4 million buried, and so they spend the rest of the movie experiencing a series of mishaps trying to find it. Obviously it's not even in the same league as "IaMMMMW" - and the product tie-in certainly weakens the movie - but it's good for a few silly laughs. As can be expected, Eddie Deezen is a riot. Equally funny is Kevin Pollak as a cop who's more into impersonations than crime-fighting. The movie's probably OK seeing once. I recommend the original version more.
- lee_eisenberg
- May 28, 2012
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $989,033
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $513,731
- Jun 14, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $989,033
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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By what name was Million Dollar Mystery (1987) officially released in India in English?
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