Antonia Rey, Captain Lou Albano, Dan Hedaya, Danny DeVito, Harvey Keitel ...( see more  see more... ) , Joe Piscopo , Julie Bovasso , Lou Albano , Mimi Cecchini , Patti LuPone , Ray Sharkey

Brian De Palma is one of our most stylish and subversive directors of suspense and horror, but as much nervous laughter as his best films inspire he's out of his depth when trying to direct an out-and...( read more  read more... )-out comedy, as this film proved. Danny De Vito and Joe Piscopo play lifelong friends and low men on the mafia totem pole. When they foul up, their boss (Dan Hedaya) offers each his life in exchange for a favor: He must kill his best friend. The idea of two friends not knowing that they each have a contract on the other's life should be good for a few laughs and De Vito works hard at it (Piscopo, on the other hand, is a hopeless case). But De Palma can't find the laughs in this film, despite the frenetic pacing and performances. --Marshall Fine

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: Brian DePalma

Release Date: April 18, 1986

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DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005

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  • September 5, 2008
    The funnies thing this spawned was a parody by three pidgeons on a Disney cartoon. Very silly but I had to giggle.
  • April 9, 2008
    Oh, DePalma, will you ever be mainstream? A decent gangster comedy that played better when it was out than now when everyone has forgotten it's existence.
  • June 26, 2009
    Blablablablablabla the end.
  • December 22, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • December 9, 2008
    no thanks not my thing
  • November 29, 2008
    (1986 Director: Brian DePalma) Very lively cliche' Tale of 2 friends from the neighborhood (Danny Devito & Joe Piscopo) awkward ne'erdowells Mafia flunkies....You can imagine!! Dan Hedeya plays the local Don/Mob boss....

    Perfect role for Harvey Keitel...always seems to have ...( read more)an extra card up his sleeve!
  • August 27, 2008
    I can't believe I have never seen this...
  • July 27, 2008
    1 great movie 2nd best ever made
  • July 18, 2008
    This is pretty funny.
  • July 15, 2008
    very different movie for Danny DeVito.because he is...i cant tell the surprize of the film.

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