Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business (1990)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (6,137 ratings)

James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a radio call-in show, he can't resist walking out of… More

R, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Arthur Hiller
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 17, 1990 Wide
On DVD
Apr 2, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    Typically bland, light-on-laughs mix-up farce

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    A series lame jokes and clunky plot machinations that would strike as cynical were they not so obviously desperate.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    A funny and entertaining movie, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

  • Tim S


    Funny, but nothing to write home about.

  • Anthony L


    Silly film but one of the last great comedies of its kind of that era. Great days!

  • James A


    Not only does the movie have Jim Belushi but it has Charles Grodin. Thats a true pairing of unfunny hacks!

  • Deb S


    A great little comedy from the early 90's with James Belushi playing a likeable con who escapes from prison to attend the World Series while getting his fellow in-mates to cover it up. Whilst on the outside he stumbles upon uptight business executive Spencer Barnes (Charles… More

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