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An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.
Teddy Wilson
- Covington
- (as Theodore Wilson)
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- TriviaLocation manager Ron [Ronald M. Quigley] scoured Los Angeles for the right kind of drive-in, only to find that nowhere in the megalopolis was one to be found. The solution was to locate a suitable parking lot and build the eatery to the specifications of the script. On a Brentwood corner lot, production designer Rodger Maus and his art and construction departments built a working drive-in dressed both inside and out with neon and jukeboxes, counter and kitchen. As soon as the building took shape, the local office personnel and residential neighbors began dropping by asking when it would open. They were very disappointed to learn that it wouldn't.
- GoofsWhen the thugs chase Spence and Dennis away from the racetrack in their car, they wind up crashing into a vending table full of stuffed toys with the collision seen in an interior shot. In the exterior shot that follows, the camera can be seen in the car's back seat.
- Quotes
Dennis Powell: We're gonna die, Spence! We're gonna die!
Spence Holden: No we're not...
Dennis Powell: I still have orders!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Temptations: A Fine Mess (1986)
- SoundtracksA Fine Mess
Written by Henry Mancini and Dennis Lambert
Produced by Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff for Ripe Productions
Performed by The Temptations
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A Fine Mess, not a Fine Movie
When Spence Holden (Ted Danson), a womanizing actor, overhears the mob drugging a race horse he thinks he's hit pay dirt-- except that the two mobsters discovered him. Undeterred by two criminals pursuing him he rounds up his buddy Dennis (Howie Mandel) to help him place a bet on the doped-up horse. Although they succeed in placing the bet it wasn't happily ever after.
Ted Danson plays a role he was very accustomed to in Cheers with some physical acting added in. Howie Mandel was the many-voiced ham of the duo. They were OK but they didn't deliver many laughs. The plot was silly but worked. The movie was watchable but nothing I'd watch over and over.
Ted Danson plays a role he was very accustomed to in Cheers with some physical acting added in. Howie Mandel was the many-voiced ham of the duo. They were OK but they didn't deliver many laughs. The plot was silly but worked. The movie was watchable but nothing I'd watch over and over.
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- Blake Edwards' A Fine Mess
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,029,824
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,620,657
- Aug 10, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $6,029,824
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