Taking Care of Business Reviews and Ratings


  • filmfanatic1982
    December 21, 2009
    filmfanatic1982
    Funny, but nothing to write home about.
  • SirPant
    September 29, 2009
    SirPant
    Silly film but one of the last great comedies of its kind of that era. Great days!
  • Gaabby
    May 7, 2009
    Gaabby
    Haha, James Belushi <3
  • bluerabbit2005
    November 25, 2008
    bluerabbit2005
    So much like the movie The Couch Trip that they should sue for copyright infringement...
  • Soundsofmadness
    October 17, 2008
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • moviefan1725
    September 11, 2008
    moviefan1725
    Charles Grodin has always been great at playing the straight man in comedies. He's usually the put upon character who doesn't quite understand what is happening around him. Here he plays an ad exec whose entire life is contained between the covers of his filofax. When he accident...( read more)ally loses it, his life quickly falls in to chaos. Jim Belushi plays an escaped car thief who find the filofax as he tries to make his way to the World Series to watch his favorite team, the Chicago Cubs. He quickly assumes Grodin's identity and live the high life while on the lam from the law. It's mistaken identity to the nth degree as Belushi begins to unravel everything Grodin has worked for. But he may doing him a favor while doing it. It's a twist on the "Trading Places"-type of comedy where the lower class slob shows the upper crust how to lighten up. What would you do if you were suddenly given the keys to paradise? Would you try to fit in, or make that world fit around you? Jim Belushi will never be his brother, the late great John Belushi. But he never tries to be. He deliver the smart aleck lines with skill, and make the character a likeable oaf. Grodin is great as his foil. A man who loses total control of his life, but finds himself again in the process. Sounds preachy for a comedy, but it really isn't. It's a fun ride, and director Arthur "Silver Streak" Hiller keeps things moving quickly, balancing the rise and fall of each characters luck in the process. It may not be "Trading Places", but it's fun all the same.
  • nubcat
    August 17, 2008
    nubcat
    A mistaken identity movie that adds nothing new to the genre although a subplot has Belushi trying to see the Chicago Cubs in the world series. The fact that the Cubs go to the world series and (SPOILER) win it makes this a complete fantasy movie border lining on science fiction....( read more) This is the first of two movie that the Disney corporation tried to push Jim Belushi on an unassuming America. And now Belushi is one of the biggest stars in the world. I kid of course, he sucks.
  • abalogh
    August 14, 2008
    abalogh
    Grodin shows that Mr Average looks hide a good actor. Belushi overtakes his brother. Original story, great realization.
  • starrey1
    April 25, 2008
    starrey1
    this one look like it mit be funny
  • theultimatescreamqueen
    February 23, 2008
    theultimatescreamqueen
    A wonderful cute comedy! An 80's treasure!
  • rajivbh70
    February 3, 2008
    rajivbh70
    nope this a completly time wasting movie.
  • tickleicious74
    September 11, 2007
    tickleicious74
    I loved this movie - it's hilarious fun!!
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 20, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    Could be worth watching. Will find and devour with my eyes!
  • 404NotFound
    July 15, 2007
    404NotFound
    I know the song .. and the film sounds familiar. But I can't remember anything ..
  • MovieGuruDude72
    June 27, 2007
    MovieGuruDude72
    One of the 10 lamest movies I've ever seen. Jim Belushi has milked his dead brother's popularity for all its worth and then some.
  • Pigfaced
    June 21, 2007
    Pigfaced
    another movie with its titled changed i knew this as a kid a "filofax"
  • JarretSmuckles
    June 21, 2007
    JarretSmuckles
    Fuck Jim Belushi. He's unfunny as hell, and so was this movie.
  • jeffman52001
    April 28, 2007
    jeffman52001
    James Belushi is awesome in this film as a convict in a minimum security prison who escapes to see the Cubs in the World Series and ends up taking the identity of a rich man. A cool film, especially to see the Cubs in a World Series in a film,,lol.
  • sherrib
    April 7, 2007
    sherrib
    OMG You can't be just waiting on lil ol me! Get out there and talk to someone else while yer waitin! Geez :P
  • joyugomi
    March 14, 2007
    joyugomi
    Wow! loved it so much.
  • fhwgirl
    March 7, 2007
    fhwgirl
    Absolutely Hilarious!!!
  • pmckay32
    February 15, 2007
    pmckay32
    i liked it he goes to a cubs game
  • asbsredsoxs75
    February 9, 2007
    asbsredsoxs75
    Loved this movie. The cubs winning the world series in it just tops it off
  • brianpark08
    December 10, 2006
    brianpark08
    Pretty bad, pretty terrible, pretty horrible. Do I need to say anymore then that?
  • Hickie
    September 8, 2006
    Hickie
    its james belushi so of course its funny
  • Matrix19
    August 18, 2006
    Matrix19
    TCB! LOL - this one was ok when I was younger
  • Godless
    May 20, 2006
    Godless
    Not only does the movie have Jim Belushi but it has Charles Grodin. Thats a true pairing of unfunny hacks!
  • MagicButterfly
    April 22, 2006
    MagicButterfly
    James Belushi AND Charles Grodin? With that cinematic pedigree, how could this NOT rule? I still don't know!

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