Big Trouble (1986) (1985)
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35% of users liked it
(577 ratings)
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… More 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 before this happens, then split the money with D'Angelo. To Arkin's amazement he finds himself the victim of a carefully prepared confidence scam engineered by Falk and D'Angelo. Now that he has a hold over Arkin, Falk gets the poor fellow mixed up in yet another "perfect crime". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Cassavetes
- Written By
- Andrew Bergman
- Genres
- Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- May 30, 1986 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's not top-notch Cassavetes, but is still watchable.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
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Chris Robe, PopMatters
It's distressing that his last film, Big Trouble, appears to capitulate to just that sort of formula.
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James Rocchi, Netflix
Sprawling comedy has a few laughs in it -- and the specter of recent events hanging over it.
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Cast
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Peter Falk
as Steve Rickey
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Alan Arkin
as Leonard Hoffman
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Beverly D'Angelo
as Blanche Rickey
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Charles Durning
as O'Mara
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Paul Dooley
as Noozel
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Robert Stack
as Winslow
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Valerie Curtin
as Arlene Hoffman
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Richard Libertini
as Dr. Lopez
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Steve Alterman
as Peter Hoffman
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Jerry Pavlon
as Michael Hoffman
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Paul La Greca
as Joshua Hoffman
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John Finnegan
as Detective Murphy
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Karl Lukas
as Police Captain
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Gloria E. Gifford
as Wanda
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Domingo Ambriz
as Terrorist
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Herb Armstrong
as Night Security Guard
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Maryedith Burrell
as Gail
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Luis Contreras
as Terrorist
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Edith Fields
as Doris
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Jeffrey Howard
as 2nd Executive
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Al Leong
as Chinese Laborer
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Gaetano Lisi
as Gaetano Lopez
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Irene Olga Lopez
as Lopez' Receptionist
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Joseph Medalis
as Salesman
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Dennis Phun
as Chinese Laborer
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Jaime Sánchez
as Chief Terrorist
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Barbara Tarbuck
as Helen
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Theodore Wilson
as Porter
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Steve Lambert
as Terrorist
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Howard Clapp
as 1st Exceutive
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Daphne Eckler
as Receptionist
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Conroy Gedeon
as Reporter
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Lenny Geer
as Whitlow Keppler
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Chester Grimes
as Flavio Lopez
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Melvin Jones
as Terrorist
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Warren Munson
as Jack
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Carol Reinhard
as Winslow's Secretary
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Rosemarie Stack
as Mrs. Winslow
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Richard Walter
as Hot Dog Eater
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Al White
as Mr. Williams
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Walter Soo Hoo
as Chinese Laborer
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Leland Sun
as Chinese Laborer
