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Big Trouble Details

1986

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Starring	Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning
Director	John Cassavetes
Genres	Drama

Big Trouble

A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is financially impossible, opportunity presents itself in the form of Blanche (Beverly D'Angelo), sexy wife of Steve Rickey (Peter Falk), who convinces Leonard to trick her husband into signing an obscure life insurance plan that promises a huge payoff if he dies while falling from a train. After the mission is seemingly accomplished, Steve reappears, confusing matters, and thereby sending Leonard's life into an official tailspin. Director John Cassavetes is credited as the director of BIG TROUBLE; he actually stepped in as a replacement. Although the film is therefore not a unique Cassavetes document, it manages to breeze along, guided by the performances of Falk (a Cassavetes standby) and Arkin, stars of 1979's THE IN-LAWS.

Starring	Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Stack
Director	John Cassavetes
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1986 To Rent: DVD: 08 Dec 2003

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  This is a comedy made by some of the same team that brought us the less-than-hilarious The In-Laws. The In-Laws was remade with Michael Douglas, a fate that it ... read more »
  
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  This is a comedy made by some of the same team that brought us the less-than-hilarious The In-Laws. The In-Laws was remade with Michael Douglas, a fate that it ... read more »
  
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  This is the only John Cassavettes film you'll see on DVD in Britain. It's a terrible, pick-up-a-paycheque exercise in 80s caper comedy (never a ... read more »
  
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  Cassavetes or not Cassavetes: that is the...
  
  Well, I always heard that John Cassavetes was one of the great ones and thought he was, myself, after having seen Gloria. Was this one a big mistake? No trouble... read more »
  
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  A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is ...