Joe Pesci, Kristy Swanson, David Spade

This is a very black comedy. A mob courier (Joe Pesci) is hired to transport the heads of 8 murder victims to a mob boss. However, the duffel bag gets mixed up with the bag of a college student (Andy ...( read more  read more... )Comeau) who is off on a vacation in Mexico with his girl friend (Kristy Swanson) and her parents (George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon). However, the mother is a recovering alcoholic whom everyone believes is delusional when she claims to have found heads. David Spade also appears as a classmate Pesci tracks down to find the student and leads to a cryogenic lab where they steal heads to replace the missing ones.

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: Tom Schulman

Release Date: April 18, 1997

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DVD Release Date: October 8, 2002

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  • September 29, 2009
    Bit rubbish but Joe Pesci is very watchable!
  • April 28, 2007
    pretty funny
  • March 26, 2007
    You'll never think of the song Mr Sandman the same again!
  • March 23, 2006
    Scripts matter not to this once mighty dwarf.
  • September 19, 2009
    This movie was so funny, I hadn't laughed so hard in a long time. It might sound gross (it's not) but it's well worth watching.
  • August 20, 2009
    Not as bad as I was expecting after reading the reviews. At times very funny, also the humor tends to be rather crude. A bit morbid as well. The cast is great though. David Spade is hilarious. Not great but I found it amusing.
  • June 16, 2009
    overall, I thought it was pretty funny, especially david spade.
  • April 8, 2009
    I love it! It is so funny I laugh through the whole movie!
  • March 14, 2009
    As creepy as it is funny. Sometimes I don't know if I should be laughing or turning away in disgust. The social discomfort of finding and then hiding a severed head is captured with the utmost brilliance.
  • March 10, 2009
    es un poco comica pero me recuerdo la escena de las cabezas

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