1986 Directed by Richard Benjamin
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Tom Hanks Shelley Long Alexander Godunov Maureen Stapleton Joe Mantegna Philip Bosco Josh Mostel Yakov Smirnoff Carmine Caridi Brian Backer Billy Lombardo Mia Dillon John van Dreelen Douglass Watson Lucille Dobrin Tetchie Agbayani Scott Turchin Radu Gavor Grisha Dimant Lutz Rath Leslie West Joey Balin Wendell Pierce Susan Browning Henry Judd Baker Mary Louise Wilson Irving Metzman Frank Marden Michael Russo Show All…
Nathan Boxer John Roesch Louis L. Edemann Greg Orloff Jeff Bushelman Mike Dobie Larry Carow Andy McKee
Money Pit, Hogar Dulce Hogar, Um Dia a Casa Cai
It's not a very good movie with little actual conflict, but at 2 in the morning on a sleeping pill it was complete bliss.
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Es ist so weit.
Alle Vorbereitung als ein banges Warten, ein Herunterzählen der Tage im Senken zu Stunden und gegen Ende zu verrinnenden Minuten ihrer einst doch so fernen Anzahl, haben ihr Ende gefunden, wurden ausradiert einer Macht jenseits des Greifbaren mit ihrer Anwesenheit verrotteten Gemüses, zu Staub zermalmten Mauerwerks, zu Asche aufgehender Stoffe im Gerüst des Kohlenstoffes.
Ein „soweit“ in der sich in der Eins wie der doppelten nachkommenden manifestierenden Zahl. Eine Ansage wie ein Befehl. Der Ist-stand wie die Norm. Ein Gesetz so alt wie die Physik selbst.
Sie prangern wie die Gehenkten von den Giebeln über Rochester. Taumeln ihrer fehelenden Standhaftigkeit an ihrem Galgen. Schwingen ihre Aufmerksamkeit flickflackschlagend behängt mit den Lichterketten bei Hornbach,…
Save yourself…
I am sinking fast into The Money Pit,
and I don’t want to drag you down with me.
So save yourself while there’s still time!
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long are trapped.
Not by a bad home purchase, but by a one joke premise that repeatedly tortures not only them, but the audience as well.
It doesn’t help that Richard Benjamin thinks he’s directing a live action cartoon that’s packed with cheesy music and exaggerated humor. Throughout the film you’re pummeled over and over again by these incredibly broad sight-gags that you see coming a mile away.
There’s a great moment when Hanks breaks out in a obnoxious bout of mock laughter and while…
Dumb? Sure. Weird? Yes. Hilarious? ABSOLUTELY! I mean it was the 80’s! A lot of strange films were created within that decade. EVERY character is hilarious in their own way, this movie fucking funny!
Trust me this movie is actually funny, and most comedies aren’t. This movie deserves to have WAY more of a cult following!
This movie is both endearing and hilarious! Goofy in a purely delightful way. Can love survive “The Money Pit?” 😂 You should watch this if you haven’t when you are in the mood for an over-the-top comedy! 80’s style!
Tom Hanks becomes the king of dopey slapstick in The Money Pit. He bumbles his way through his cursed fixer-upper for almost the entire length of the film, providing some stellar visual gags and creative scenarios.
Unfortunately, these jokes are few and far between, and the film feels completely lifeless in every moment when Hanks isn’t being tormented by his demon house. There’s practically no story, and his wife, played by Shelley Long, is annoying, unfunny, and unsympathetic, just like every other person in the movie. A five minute supercut of all the house gags would be a worthwhile watch on YouTube, but the overall movie definitely isn’t.
shelley long desperately trying to find a working outlet to plug her kettle into to make tea resulting in a rube goldberg chain of events which causes tom hanks to be covered in white paint and to be flung off the roof of his house is a pretty accurate depiction of the lengths I would go to to have my morning cup of tea.
An energetic blend of physical comedy and witty banter, "The Money Pit" is a solid mid-'80s comedy that shrugs off some introductory dullness and mostly sticks its landing. Committed to its domestic mayhem, Richard Benjamin's film is elevated by a harried leading man and its prickly core relationship.
Revolving around a couple whose relationship is tested when a home becomes more that can be handled, the two spar over old relationships and repairs to the manse. The comedy inherent in the crumble-down house and those repairs fuels some hilarious set-pieces, and the verbal battles between the couple are classically spry.
The production is capable and at its best when Benjamin focuses on the cartoony violence of flying paint cans and…
As a recent buyer of a secondhand home I can confidently state this is a fu€k’n documentary.
I originally saw this movie in theaters when it opened in March 1986 (28 freaking years ago). Over the years I have seen it many more times but today's viewing was probably the first in 10 years. Tom Hanks and Shelly Long buy a house that they think is a steal....instead it turns into a huge money pit as the house is really a train wreck.
At this stage of his career, Hanks was known as a comedic actor only...and his last two films....The Man With One Red Shoe and Volunteers had done poorly at the box office. The Money Pit turned out to be a modest hit.....but it was the first time he got to work with Steven Spielberg…
