we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

looks like i picked the wrong way to

quit sniffing blue light

of my life we enjoy your films

i thought they smelled bad on the

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time

over analyzing what you've seen and

spoiling what you haven't i'm patrick

o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm

richard wells and today marks the 40th

anniversary of the release of how to

beat the high cost of living

on july 11 1980 it was written by robert

kaufman

based on a story by leonora thuna

directed by robert shearer

and released by american international

can you guess the original title

hint it was used by another movie later

rollerball

so close

moneyball it's the original title uh in

1975

the film was ready to go with carol

burnett jane fonda and glenda jackson

burnett dropped out and was replaced

with shirley maclaine

and then the film moved to fox where the

leads were swapped for goldie hawn alli

mcgraw and barbara streisand

oh i think i would have liked that

better they were also considering ann

margaret

i don't know which role but one of the

three and according to imdb

over the almost decade of pre-production

other actresses considered for the parts

were

fey dunaway raquel welch jane fonda

dolly parton

diane keaton margot kidder mary tyler

moore

julie andrews diane cannon sally field

goldie hawn

madeleine kahn terry garr jill clayburgh

so they went through a lot of people

before they settled well hold on a

second so this movie was in

pre-production for potentially a decade

yeah the first draft was written in 71.

71 yeah

because i thought it was incredibly

timely

because it has to do with extreme

inflation

which was happening in 1980

so i was just like wow they really got

this script off the ground fast and got

it out there

but you're telling me this was written

in 1970 and they just predicted that in

1980 it would have incredibly high

inflation

it turns out that over the course of

human history people have always needed

money

no but specifically the the high

inflation plot point well it went

through

11 rewrites over the course of i guess

yeah they just tried to make it timely

at the last second by adding that to it

but i think originally it was just a

heist movie actually ellen arkham was

gonna direct it originally

i think if it was actually a heist movie

and nothing else it might have actually

been pretty good

yeah but it was not that but yeah alan

arkin dropped off

herbert ross who directed naginski was

attached for a while i don't think that

would have worked very well either

fox warner brothers and eventually

universal all turned the film down and

it ended up being the last american

international release

after a disappointing year that started

well with mad max

but then shout out defiance nothing

personal and gorp

three truly reprehensible garbage heaps

american international was then acquired

by filmways who fared much better in

1980

on the strength of dress to kill alone

but they had other good movies at the

time

after the success of love at first bite

also starring susan st

james and richard benjamin the

screenwriters were able to

get american international to agree to a

younger less established cast

so that's how we ended up with these

three but would you really consider uh

jane curtain not established this was

her first feature film

but but she yeah yeah she was on tons of

snl

but established means that you have a

film career and she did not she had done

weekend update

i i don't know i i think that's

established

you put you put seth myers in a movie

now and i'd be like yeah he's

established and he hasn't had a film

career

because that's myers is not established

as a film actor

i wouldn't buy a ticket to that movie

because i've only seen him read news

jokes

that's all i've seen from him jane you

ignorant [ __ ]

so apparently somebody yelled that at

the set as they were driving by when

they saw jane curtin

and the imdb trivia says that everybody

laughed about it i was like

everybody except for jane curtin because

i guess she gets that every [ __ ]

where she goes

and it's probably super annoying to her

that she's like with her kids at the

grocery store and someone's like

a chain you ignorant [ __ ] and she's like

[ __ ] here with my kids

what is your problem 50 years ago yeah

how are you still alive how am i still

alive

apparently the money ball in the film

actually contained 240 000

of real money so i was wrong i i was

gonna say all that money looked real

legit

yeah because the cinematographer said

people can tell when they see fake money

especially when it's moving

and so really they were like it has to

be real money so they borrowed 240 000

from a bank to use for this borrowed i

mean i guess

yeah um we start the film with an

animated sequence

of a dollar with wings and a girl is

chasing it

when she passes a second girl whose

money is all sucked up

along with her clothes by an

anthropomorphized pump at a gas station

the pump then transforms into a glaring

cash register

who swallows the clothes and money of a

third woman

the three women together dive into a pet

hospital that looks like a small dog

house

and a vet carrying a puppy comes out the

other side the women hold a garage sale

which is attended by the irs

who steals the garage the newly

uncovered car

looks angry and demands to eat all of

the things that they're selling at the

garage sale as well as their clothes

again

because their clothes keep reappearing

it barfs up three bicycles for some

reason

and clothes for them and then it drives

away they ride the bicycles to a butcher

shop

where they try to move the price tags

around to cheat the proprietor

but he doesn't fall for it and so they

leave outside a caricature of what looks

like ayatollah khamenei steals their

bikes

and rides away and the girls yell after

him

and then walk away from camera as we

fade to live action

so i i do have to say though that i

think that this animation does

a fabulous job of setting up the movie

in how terrible and sexist it is

throughout

um i also like that in addition to the

the poster which is like the three of

them standing naked in a barrel

that they're like sex appeal come on

these ladies are all gonna get naked

and it's like there's one scene where

there's like mild nudity and it's not

any of these three actors

so it's like what why why did you

intentionally disappoint your audience

like that but uh

hey if they're in the theater they

already paid for it this is true uh we

zoom into a neighborhood

and then a home and then eventually a

garage before we push through the garage

door to find jane

and robert sleeping in the back of a car

jane tells robert that she is late which

reminds him that he should get moving

toward work

just to be clear this character

is named jane but is not jane curtin

right

yeah and that is very annoying through

the rest of the movie when she's talking

to jane

and jane's calling her jane and not to

mention that there's a character that

sounds like jane

named elaine yeah and that doesn't help

either

it's actually jake yes i also feel like

you shouldn't have a character named

elaine

and a character named louise in the same

movie

because there's it's just like the the

names every time i was typing them out i

was like mixing them up constantly yeah

jane tells robert she's late blah blah

blah blah blah she's pregnant

with his child well they don't they

don't spell that out here

as far as we know she might have just

meant that she was late because all she

says is

i'm late and he's like oh yeah me too i

gotta get going and she's like do you

love me

and then he says oh no i don't love you

i just really like sleeping in your car

that's why i come here all the time it's

not because i love you it's cause i love

your freezing garage

and having your kids call me uncle

robert for two years

and uh but apparently he's been dragging

his feet about them getting married and

she's trying to push him on the subject

because i think she doesn't want to have

a kid outside of wedlock

but he says he's holding out for a

promotion to manager at the store

uh i think he's waiting for his boss to

die or retire

how does that help anything i don't know

but apparently he thinks that it's like

a monarchy and it will just fall to him

um because because he'll make big bucks

at this

small hardware store yeah he's going to

be super rich

and then he can marry her because that

makes all the difference

yeah louise pulls up to an animal

hospital where

presumably she works oh no she just

walked right past the counter and she's

talking to her husband in the back

this is albert played by richard

benjamin he's in the back room and he

instructs her to strip and climb on the

table from behind a curtain

and she reminds him uh this is your wife

not one of your nurses

or not your secretary or whatever she

says albert and the puppy he is holding

come around the corner and take turns

licking louise's face

she's asking for money to dump into an

antique store that she's been

hemorrhaging kasha for two years now

or i guess three years he tells her to

her face that she's

a perfect example of the women's lib

movement able to do whatever she wants

as long as her husband pays for it

for some reason he didn't expect this

comment to backfire oh because it

doesn't

uh he continues to mock her for the rest

of the scene right up until they're

making out again

elaine pulls up to her home and she

brings in bags from shopping

all the way to her bedroom where she

listens to a phone message

one is from her husband apparently

leaving her via

a message on the phone his new love

interest is leaving the message with him

as he offers such platitudes as there

are plenty of other fish in the sea

and she smashes the phone and throws her

ring off the balcony

a bank employee informs her that her

husband took everything from their

safety deposit box

all the accounts and all the jewelry but

she still has 480

left on the christmas club card i'm not

familiar with christmas club cards uh

well and for some reason she can't even

use the money until

december well it seems like a forced

saving program where it's like

you put this money aside so that you

don't accidentally spend it before you

need to buy gifts

uh also it's weird that he i guess no i

i would say like you think he would

leave her the jewelry but i guess he

wants to

give it to his new right lady love yeah

it's great

he can get laid twice with the same

jewelry apparently she can't access that

money till december 10th

which is probably why he didn't take it

and the banker tries to assure her that

he will come back to which she replies

what makes you think i want the rotten

son of a [ __ ] uh elaine has to pay

house and car payments monday

and she has no money i don't know why

she has to pay housing car payments if

the house and car aren't hers

because they already told her that she

couldn't sell them because they're

community property

so they're not hers well i guess she

needs the car

to get around right but if they

reposition

house but aren't they in her husband's

name right but they can still repossess

them

why would he want that why would he want

his house repossessed

because he's moved on with another lady

so he's okay with losing hundreds of

thousands of dollars

so he doesn't have to talk to his

ex-girlfriend anymore or ex-wife

apparently

i i don't understand the logic of it

because they try and make it it's like

oh there's there is like you have things

but you don't have anything and it's

like well no she either has a house or

she doesn't

if she doesn't have the house then

someone else is paying for it

and if they're not paying for it then

it's their loss not hers

i i completely agree with you but in the

in the universe of this movie that's not

how things work yeah this guy literally

just

was like screw it i'm just gonna let

these things get repossessed i don't

care about that house or that

car i guess things would be clearer if

there was terms of a divorce

or if you ever saw this guy in the whole

movie yeah uh

but uh no no because she's selling all

of his stuff

yeah she's allowed to sell everything

but the car in the house because they're

not hers

but then she shouldn't also be in charge

of paying for those things then

but uh she begs this bank for credit

extensions and she's not getting

anywhere because

the woman at the bank says they only

loan money to people who don't need it

albert sits in the side office of the

bank and

he's getting audited by the irs they

refer to his wife's business repeatedly

as a hobby

and they explain that the amount of

money that he has loaned her business

and the lack of profit it has shown

makes it not a legitimate business

but it's open six days a week and it has

an employee and expenses and everything

like i don't know how you can't prove

this as a business

yeah you don't have to turn a profit to

be a business restaurants don't turn a

profit for years after they get started

yeah and spoiler alert

he gets that all corrected in the end

and yeah just deus ex machina

and i was just like well then just why

didn't you just do that yeah

but uh they they basically say that the

government draws a line between a hobby

and a business at

the interest-free loan that he gave his

wife to keep the store running

as a result of this interest-free loan

he now owes taxes on the 36 000

that he loaned her for the store because

they aren't business expenses anymore

they'll need to prove that the store is

legitimate in a hurry if they don't want

to owe uncle sam tens of thousands of

dollars

elaine drowns her sorrows at a bar she

complains about her ex's

19 year old replacement for her and she

blames herself for what went wrong

apparently she he was an architect and

she repeatedly mocked his work calling

him frank lloyd wrong

um it really bothers me how many times

in this movie

that the people who are having extreme

money problems

are at bars and restaurants yeah yeah

they they're not good with money

obviously

at home handing off the kids to her ex

jane asks for more money and child

support from her ex-husband

apparently she's been getting by on 200

a month

to keep the kids alive and sheltered and

it doesn't go as far as it did when they

were tiny

he tells his wife that his life is hard

too and she advises him to ask for a

raise

but he's he's a coach for the football

team at the high school

and he can't ask for a raise because the

team sucks because he's probably a bad

coach

but he also refuses to let his new wife

work

because her job is taking care of him so

the two of them are getting by on a

bad football coach's salary which is

rough he tells her that she's lucky she

didn't end up like elaine

i guess word travels fast because i

thought that happened today

back at the bar elaine drunkenly trips

on a table on her way out

and the bartender is for some reason

fine with her driving

which she then does she flips a ui and

blows a stop sign right in front of a

cop

and the cop here is dabney coleman and

she hands him her license

and he tells her what she did and she

invites him to have some coffee and a

conversation

and he takes her up on it she says let's

go to your place and he said oh

we can't do that my wife's there and she

says you're married

and he says yeah isn't everybody and she

gets mad that he would assume

that she was also married which she is i

think

uh she flips out and starts assaulting

him with her purse

until he grabs her and threatens a rest

which she should have already done

because she drove drunk and blew a stop

sign

but he's trying to have sex with her

that's true it's a toss-up

she says go ahead and arrest me i know

who i'll use my one call on

she asks if he knows who she'll use the

call on implying that she magically

knows his wife's phone number

or i don't i don't i'm not even sure

what she's implying here

i guess she could call information say

can you connect me to

officer so-and-so's wife and that

that this woman is gonna believe a drunk

driver that says

hey just so you know i'm in jail but

your husband hit on me and i guess i'm

going to be here for a long time

because i forgot to use my phone call

wisely

he just lets her go because he hates the

innocent people in his neighborhood

and and he thinks that one of them might

die tonight

because of his actions jayden louise

pull up to elaine's garage sale

to get rid of her husband's [ __ ] because

she's going to lose the house soon

uh this was the only bit that i laughed

out loud at

was when she asked the guy if she wants

if he wants a cup of coffee

yeah sure and so she pours it for him he

says 25 cents

so he just pours it back into the pot

that's pretty great

it turns out that she can't sell the

house or the cars

so the girls try to cheer elaine up by

doing one of their old high school

cheers

and even all the shoppers are amused by

this routine like everybody in the whole

driveway is

laughing and clapping at this song that

they performed and then a shotgun goes

off yeah a nearby fish tank

explodes it was filled with live fish

and it dumps them all into the driveway

apparently a woman was considering

buying a shotgun and accidentally fired

it

elaine begs the people to save the fish

before turning on a dime to say hi to

the shooter

save the fish hello natalie

natalie has stopped by to see if

elaine's changed her mind about helping

out for the shopping center anniversary

pageant

uh she wants this gun to protect herself

because recently she's been followed

home several times

by someone but this doesn't play a part

in the rest of the

movie she's just thinks she's being

followed and she wants a gun

all around good samaritans are

collecting the fish in jars

and natalie reminds elaine that they are

meeting to organize the pageant

at her house on monday morning elaine

eventually wrestles the gun away from

natalie but as the scene

ends she's pointing it straight at the

chest of a nearby shopper

and i was really worried it was going to

go off again he turns to her and he

offers her 10 bucks for a tennis racket

and she says sure and he says say did

millard have any balls

and she looks at the smirking faces of

her friends before admitting the joke is

too easy

i can't it's too easy uh in there next

to the freezer the yellow can

all you can find go with the racquet

okay she's very generous

yeah like it's not her stuff well yeah

but she needs the money

yeah for how natural the dialogue has

been thus far it takes a very sharp left

here though

uh at exposition station the next scene

at the mall

there's a huge plastic bubble erected in

the center of the mall and an adr line

says

well what is it a ball filled with real

money

which doesn't really make sense because

it's empty right now

reading from a pamphlet louise explains

that the gross for the

day of the mall's first anniversary will

be placed in the ball

and whoever guesses closest to the

correct dollar amount wins

not the money but in two weeks all

expenses paid trip to hawaii for their

entire family

why does there need to be money why not

just have a thing full of like

marbles or beans or something it doesn't

make any sense

uh jane says that if they win they could

sell the tickets but they'd only be

splitting four thousand dollars

and elaine says they should just become

hookers but then jane points out that

they'd starve to death

because there's 12 000 college girls

giving it away in this town

they joke about kidnapping natalie and

asking her husband for a hundred

thousand dollars

in exchange for not giving her back but

when the check comes jane and elaine

look

the other way until louise offers to pay

for everything and they thank her

at home louise shares her worries that

she's going to lose this shop

and albert assures her that there's no

more money to loan without divulging

the whole irs situation he doesn't

really explain

what happened but he tells her that

business is becoming less feasible with

the increasing price of medicine

he says do you know what i did today

louise do you

i sold a used flea collar to a cocker

spaniel yes

and tomorrow i may remove a cat's

appendix whether he wants me to remove

it or not

i think he meant whether he needs it or

not because i'm relatively sure the cat

does not want its appendix removed

even if it needed it uh she laughs it

off and they start kissing when the

doorbell rings

and as she leaves to answer it he's like

oh ah there's something i meant to tell

you

but it's too late at the door she

receives a summons and learns she's

being sued by her husband

because he has to sue her so that he can

prove that this was a business loan

because otherwise he has to pay taxes on

36 000

uh jane and robert have a meal at taco

time and he seems reticent to have a

family so soon

he wishes he had the 25 thousand dollars

to buy out the store

and run it himself and she blames her

grandfather for not losing world war

ii which he apparently won

single-handedly yeah

uh so that the u.s would have gotten

reparations and had a better industrial

sector

robert says all he needs is 250 000 and

she thinks he's that close to 25k

but then he reveals no no i meant for

your abortion basically

yeah uh which is like super dark for the

way this conversation was going did you

say 250 thousand dollars

250 250 yeah but but

she says then you mean you have like

she's like oh you have 24

750 yeah he's like no i have 38 dollars

or something like that

so he's not even trying to save up

enough money to buy this store

louise freaks out on albert for suing

her not really listening to the

financial reasoning

and she's basically gonna lose the story

either way

at least he's trying to save the house

from getting repossessed

because if he loans her the money

they're still gonna lose the store

because he's gonna get taxed until he

has nothing

and if he doesn't loan her the money

then she's gonna lose the store so it

doesn't make a difference

elaine stops for gas and finds that her

credit card has been canceled

she offers to have sex with the gas

station attendant but he does not seem

interested

for some reason at home jane learns that

her mother

has left her father for a woman she

tells him that there's a motel just down

the street but he's looking for a

cheaper place to stay

aka here uh eddie albert is playing this

really creepy uh

he keeps touching her face like it's not

fatherly at all it's it's very and i

didn't know

i didn't quite understand what they were

trying to say with his bejeweled

yes like just a jacket confused by that

also yeah he's wearing a jean jacket

that's got like a

flag bejeweled on the back but it's

instead in lieu of the stars

it has a peace sign yeah i was like is

he also

maybe gay but he was in the military

right yeah

have him and his wife ben beards for

each other this whole time

i thought you were the beard um at work

in her store ye

old antique shop a cop comes in to see

louise and he presents her with a court

order

to close the business until the court

case has been decided between her and

her husband

because you know the best way to prove

that something's a business is to not

allow them to sell anything yeah

you get you need to start turning a

profit if you don't want us to audit you

anyway lock the door and then still turn

a profit somehow

jane comes home and finds her son

digging through the fridge

she lectures him for not being at his

dentist appointment for a while

but eventually the kid explains the

dentist sent him home because they're

overdue on a bill

elaine runs out of gas just outside the

mall she tries to call

aaa or the fake movie version of aaa but

can't get through

and she watches a team wiring the

lighting for the cash bubble

and when the lights come on this insane

blurring score

accompanies the idea striking in her

head and she immediately

calls louise the three of them meet up

outside the ball

and jane says i know what you said on

the phone lane but

it won't work we've got to make it work

what choice do we have

we have a choice we can all go back home

now and go to sleep

implying that she announced her

intention to presumably steal the money

from this bubble

on a phone installed 20 feet away from

the display where anyone could have

heard her

well not only that they talk about it

constantly while walking around

in public they continue laying out there

later yeah

yeah that's true they continue laying

out their plot right here loud enough

for anyone to hear from across the mall

louise sounds very pessimistic but she

isn't ruling out the attempt

she says people don't typically get away

with this stuff jane mentions a brink's

robbery but louise points out that

they're all in jail now

louise offers to plan if elaine handles

the execution

which basically leaves jane out again

not jane curt

but jane person jane volunteers to

handle any unnecessary canoeing that may

come up

uh elaine speaks on the phone with

louise

from her husband's office when a

co-worker enters

her missing husband was an architect and

he happens to have the blueprints to the

mall

in his office good news they won't have

to dig the tunnel that they expected to

and she ends the call and admits to the

man that

she's trying to open the locked drawer

on her husband's desk

because she's just trying to find any

kind of a clue i i

i really love jane curtin and i really

love her

snide sneaky smile yeah where she's

smiling but she has her

mouth open a little bit it's it's it

kills me every time

and she does it in this and she also

comes across really genuine here and

totally tricks this guy

yeah i was like oh man i love you jane

curtin but uh

she doesn't really care where he went

she's just asking for him to check this

drawer so that she can throw the

blueprints out the window

into a fountain yeah but the other thing

that's weird is that

i was so sure that the reason that there

was already a tunnel

to the bubble was because that the

people who built this mall had this plan

like they helped put together that they

were gonna do this thing and they were

gonna

so i thought her husband was gonna be

there to steal this this bubble

who would have expected upon the opening

of the mall that there was gonna be a

big ball of money in it

a year later well no i i just i don't

think that they

they put the tunnel there specifically

for this but i think that i thought it

was going to turn out that the reason

that

the husband disappeared was because he

noticed that that tunnel led there

because he had the blueprints and he was

going to steal this money and they were

going to run into him in the tunnels

under the place

and also this tunnel is a conveyor belt

to dump garbage into the river

is it to dump garbage i guess it is i

guess it's to dump something into the

river

maybe it's like radiation because this

is like a stranger thing small i also

think it's weird that their plan

before she had the plans for the

mall was that they were gonna dig this

tunnel like

this this event is happening in like

five days yeah you're gonna dig a tunnel

under the mall and have nobody

find out yeah it didn't make any sense

before but

it makes slightly less sense now no it

makes slightly more sense but still none

so after we see her throw the blueprints

out the window and they land on a

fountain we cut

to her home where she's blow drying the

blueprints and explaining

them to jane and louise uh i thought for

sure that this was going to lead to a

situation where

one of the lines was going to blur

together oh they were going to get it

wrong

they were like yeah they're going to

like they were going to go down into the

tunnels but there was going to be a wall

where they

shouldn't be yeah it just got washed off

yeah

um according to the map there is a

useful passageway in the back of a shoe

store

uh louise scouts it the next day a pair

of employees are complaining that a kid

came in with differently sized feet and

the other one says

must be inherited do you see his

mother's boobs uh

she doesn't react to this at all but she

should have been laughing hysterically

it was just such a weird read too did

you get a look at her boobs

i was like uh all right

i feel like every backroom conversation

between two guys at a shoe store ends

with

did you get a look at her boobs elaine

meets with natalie

and they enter the place where they're

rehearsing this pageant

that will celebrate the mall as well as

the first hundred years of oregon's

history

there's like a spooky score as louise is

crawling around in the darkness under

the mall

and uh i thought something terrible was

about to happen but she basically

follows the tunnel to where it opens

onto a lake at this conveyor belt that

yeah you're right it's just dumping

trash into the water and elaine wanders

through the pageant area until she finds

the master power line for the whole

building

at jane's son's baseball game grandpa is

playing umpire

and calls the kid out at home plate or

does he call him safe

he calls him out but it is his grandson

yeah

so he calls him out and the coach jane's

x and the father of this kid

approaches him and shouts at the

grandfather for making a bad call and

starts shoving him around

grandpa is delighted uh because this is

his former son-in-law and he's wanted to

punch him for five years

so he punches him once and says that's

for touching an umpire and he punches

him again that's for leaving my daughter

and then he said he punches him a third

or kicks him to the ground and he says

and thanks for making me lose my temper

in front of these sweet kids

you chicken [ __ ] wimp

the ladies tally up how much money jane

will need total

25 000 for robert's shop and then they

say 10 000 for max hitler

i don't know what that means i don't

know who max hitler is

but that max is jane's dad

why are they calling him hitler cause he

yelled i guess but he yelled at her

ex-husband who was being shitty and

beating on an old man at a kid's

baseball game

and a thousand dollars for tom's bridge

because he will for sure sue

plan in hand they have moved on to phase

two now hold on though sorry

okay i they're only going over the

amount of money

that jane needs well that jane needs the

ten thousand

for uh to find her

father in an apartment in the shop no

luis needs money for the shop

louise no no no the 25 000 was for

robert's shop

her not yet oh okay

because he if he was able to scrape up

25 000

he could just buy the manager ticket

behind the counter

and then be the manager so then so far

buy out his boss

okay then so far all the needs that

we're getting here is jane's needs

yeah and as i was like we're not going

over elaine or louise yeah

i was confused i thought it was luis's

numbers but yes i was like well what

about everyone

else like i mean why are we focusing on

what how much money

do all of them need yeah what is the

target amount

we don't know we don't even know how

much they get right so we just move on

to phase two

and we basically need to verify that

they are psychologically prepared for

this robbery

so they put a bunch of terrible felonies

into a bowl

and draw one at random and jane draws

stick up a safeway alone so elaine gives

her a fake gun and

which would bring the possible

sentencing down to one to five years

instead of five to ten

or death if they shoot you uh which they

can do if you're an armed robber

uh when jane pulls the gun on the

cashier though the cashier tosses it in

with the rest of her groceries assuming

correctly that it was a toy jane and

elaine head

down to a boat rental shack and jane

steals a canoe

back at the mall elaine notices a

janitor with an enormous vacuum

bag and he pauses to start smoking a

pipe in the middle of the mall

i feel like even in 1980 people weren't

just smoking pipes in public malls yeah

the next night the ladies are driving to

a wheeler's store

they plan on robbing it this is where

robert works and they need a giant

vacuum because their plan is to

vacuum all the money out of this ball i

thought they were going to use the one

at the mall

yeah i thought so too it's already in

the building i thought that was the

whole setup

um but uh but that's not the plan they

also get

different kinds of saws and things that

they'll need to uh

to complete the plan as they've laid it

out there's a disturbing line

in which because jane's bringing her

kids yeah and she says the last time i

left them alone

he took pictures of his sibling and sent

them into playboy yeah

but they're both boys no it's a boy and

a girl

is a boy yes it is a boy i thought they

were both boys too which is why i was

very confused the girl

is named lori that's the younger sister

okay uh

and i was like but that's still

horribly disturbing they just gloss over

it like it's a joke but

she's basically admitting that her son

made child pornography of his sister

and tried to sell it to a pornographer

the last time they got left at home

but and so she thinks it's safer now to

leave them both in the car in what looks

like a pretty shitty neighborhood

um well they're going to rob a store

yeah the sun wakes up and says do you

want to play evil kneel

sure okay you play evil and i'll play

the motorcycle

come on okay and i was like oh god like

this kid is already a [ __ ] pervert

and now he's gonna rape his sister in

this parking lot

what is happening the ladies are

accidentally locked inside the store

and set off an alarm when they see the

kids playing outside

luckily officer dabney coleman complete

incompetent catches them stealing [ __ ]

and elaine's excuses that it's a

scavenger hunt for charity

uh the store belongs to jane's

quote-unquote fiance which he's not

actually her fiance because he hasn't

paid to marry her

but uh but she has the keys because he

does work there

and they point to the kids in the car as

proof that they're not robbing the place

because they're like

what kind of [ __ ] idiot would bring

two kids to rob a store

but he lets them go because they're a

bad cop but then there's an implication

that that uh elaine jane curtin's

character

is going to offer sex to him right and

then she says

did you see the way i raped that cop

yeah and i was like

did she have sex with him in the parking

lot no i think

she felt bad about taking advantage of

him here by using her sex to get away

with this

but she basically just admits blatantly

to drunk driving earlier

she's like by the way the other day when

you have me pulled over i was

wasted you didn't check or anything but

i was so drunk

um i was drunk driving and uh here i'm

doing something bad too but you got to

let us go

you owe me one okay he says you uh i owe

you one and he says you owe me two

um because for some reason i'm letting

you go again

uh but yeah at this restaurant later

again they're at a restaurant spending

more money

um elaine feels bad for lying and jane

feels bad about

[ __ ] up the theft of this store uh

the cop meets

with elaine at her house and he explains

that his wife left him

apparently in the last week because she

was home very recently

but they have a date and sex in her

place albert goes out on a date with

another woman

all of a sudden and he's complaining

about louise on this like lovers lane

hilltop parking area where everybody is

yeah the whole cast of the movie is here

except for louise after their last fight

uh louise told albert that he was going

to be sleeping in the den and apparently

he thinks that means they're separated

or something

because he's just took another woman up

to this lover's lane

she says that it's taken her seven years

to get him up here

and a few cars over we see jane and

robert

speaking in a car she promises that she

will get the money to buy the shop

and uh and he says where are you gonna

get it and she says my folks

and he says your dad asked me for money

when i came to pick you up the other

night

and she says i'm gonna get it from my

mom and she's like your mom just hawked

her wedding ring to buy a crib for her

newly adopted son though her parents are

poor but she's she insists that she can

get this money

a few more cars down the line elaine has

her foot stuck in the glove compartment

and officer dabney coleman fears that

they'll have to call the fire department

elaine made them drive up here because

she said that the neighbors would notice

if he left his police car in front of

her house all night but apparently they

took her car so it's still there

yep dabney coleman goes to find help

from another car

because he's incompetent and he pulls

albert

out of the car down the way and drags

him up to their car

jane and elaine noticed that albert is

with a another woman that's not louise

but he says hey don't tell my wife in

exchange

for me saving elaine's foot but he

doesn't even save the foot

no and that's not and that's not how

leverage works uh

and so it doesn't make any sense you

don't have anything to hold over their

heads

after you've pulled this woman's foot

out of the glove compartment

but yeah jane reaches in from the

driver's side and gets the foot out

and uh the ladies move on to plan the

robbery yep what was this

all about no point for this scene uh

we're back at jane's house and the

ladies are planning the robbery with

three magnets on an empty refrigerator

i was driving just crazy what how are

you planning this you're just putting

magnets on a blank fridge

the only reference points are each other

it doesn't reference anything

like put them like literally you can use

the magnets to attach the map to this

refrigerator

but no no you're not doing that either

and then now we're going to make a

recording an incriminating recording

of us planning the robbery it's worse

than talking on the phone

in the mall next to the money ball it's

just

telling everybody exactly what you're

going to do for some reason they recite

the entire robbery plan into a tape

recorder

for evidence in case they forget to get

caught in the act

albert gets mad at louise for leaving

without explaining where she's going

but i thought this tape recorder was

going to come back into play for some

reason

like i mean if you're not going to just

listen to it in your sleep because you

like want to like absorb this through

osmosis or something

they don't even do that no what is the

point of the tape recorder uh

just so that they can spell out the plan

for us oh exposition okay got it

get it uh i already knew the plan yeah i

thought i did too actually

they extensively went through the

tunneling system she found the fuse box

i get it yeah it got the canoe we get

how the planets coming together

i guess they were trying to point out so

that when we see them all being

late later that they had to be certain

places at exactly specific times but it

turns out that

but that doesn't matter um but yeah so

albert gets mad at louise for trying to

leave the house without telling her

we're

telling him where she's going she says

if you're worried about eating the food

albert don't i stopped poisoning it two

days ago the hell with the food

at jane's house her son is dealing cards

for poker with grandpa's friends

and her daughter is getting them all

beers jane tells grandpa to leave

she fires her babysitter on her way to

the robbery this makes no sense

and nothing they're doing is even mildly

inappropriate for kids like kids are

supposed to get stuff for you out of the

fridge

that's half of what they're for at this

age but i think it was the swearing

and but she swears all the time it

doesn't matter

anyway these kids will just be home

alone even though i said i don't do that

anymore because

my one kid's a pervert and elaine is

about to leave

but now the power is out in her garage

or i guess the whole house

but uh she ca she doesn't know that she

can pull a cord and lift the garage door

yeah

with the counterweight what is happening

so

she thinks her car is trapped and uh she

calls the power company

and he says oh yeah no there's there's

no power problem in your area

it looks like this bill hasn't been paid

and she says oh but it's an emergency

my mother is she's in the next room and

she has this medical equipment that

needs

power and she's what's that mama the

machine isn't going to pocket it to

pocket or to pocket anymore

oh my god and the guy at the power

company is like

that was beautiful like i've been here

so long

i've never heard anybody put so much

effort that was really great

you know what you could probably head

down to the

corner store and she's like oh what good

is that going to do me he said

they have lovely candles and then she

hangs up

or he hangs up on her yeah he hangs up

laughing maniacally

and his laughter carries over into the

transition of the scene

echoing in the air as if his laughter

could be heard for miles

yes it's an epic laugh elaine decides

instead to drive through the garage door

jane it turns out has a flat tire and a

man has stopped to

offer her a ride but she says she's

waiting for a station wagon because she

has the canoe

and the guy says oh well do you have a

spare

and she says no i sold it to buy jody a

retainer

instead of just saying no no i don't

have a spare she like gives them this

whole backstory

and and they're like okay i don't know

what you want me to do at this point

you're giving me more information i'm

just gonna go

he kind of angrily speeds off though but

i'm like you know moments ago you were

trying to help this woman in distress

why are you suddenly so angry i think

it's because she seems crazy

because she has kids uh yeah so i

thought it was like oh i'm gonna pick up

this woman and hit on her and then he

found out that she has kids and it's

like nope

okay i'm done because every guy in this

movie is horrible

yeah every woman in this movie is

horrible yeah everybody is pretty bad

um we're back at louise and albert's

place where apparently now she just

knows that he cheated even though we

never got the scene where her friends

spill the beans and apparently they

weren't worried that

albert was going to put her foot back in

the glove compartment if she told

um so now she knows and uh it doesn't

really matter because

he just basically like yeah you know i

took her on a date but nothing happened

and it doesn't matter it's irrelevant

she doesn't seem to care much though

anyway no she really doesn't

but they're fighting for a while and

then she remembers that she's late for

this robbery

so she heads to the mall where the the

bubble has a fan running in it now so

it's blowing what

what only looked to me like about four

thousand dollars of money blowing around

inside this bubble

um and it's surrounded by five security

guards elaine

is being lectured for getting to the

pageant late

and uh natalie's like you need to get in

here we just freed the slaves we're

almost the state

where have you been she's like morrigan

didn't have any slaves where did you get

the slaves

are you sure i'm positive like really

they also mentioned that uh the indians

broke the treaty

and the indians

um apparently none of this was rehearsed

except for these dance numbers

louise gets hung up by running into

dabney coleman and doesn't make it to

the shoe store before they close

she sneaks through a window between

conjoined bathrooms

from the next door over and she manages

to get back to that

hidden hallway jane is just canoeing for

the mall because she

doesn't have a car anymore there was a

funny bit where you see a car

stopped along the road with the canoe on

the roof and it looks like or the

angle it looks like the canoe's on the

roof yeah and the car pulls away and

it's just jane waiting for the light to

change so you can cross this i really

liked that shot

she throws up over the side of the canoe

in this river

but as a joke the editor put in a fart

sound instead of the sound of vomit

hitting the water

i don't understand i played it back a

couple of times it's definitely a fart

sound

with the moneyball now completely filled

it looks like it has a max

five thousand dollars but apparently

this was 240 thousand dollars

because money doesn't look like a lot of

money when you put it in this big of a

shape well every

every time it stops on a bill it's like

a one or a five yeah

uh it would have gone with all ones for

that 250 might have actually looked like

it was a lot of money

maybe that was difficult to to come

together i think the

but the only reason that it's blowing

around in circles like this is so that

the ball doesn't look completely empty

because a couple times this fan turns

off and then it drops to looking almost

like there's no money in it

from underneath this transparent ball

where the guards could very plainly see

her louise starts drilling a hole right

in the middle of this event with

everyone watching

i don't know how you don't hear that

she's got a hole saw that she's drilling

up through the bottom of this you know

plastic ball it would be just going

you know but she's also looking up at it

there's like a

big like three foot wide circle of

transparent like she can see all the

guards

all around the bubble so there's no way

they can't just look down and see the

woman with a drill touching the bottom

of this bubble it's transparent

and if they hear her scream they have to

be able to hear the drill

right so she sees a rat down here and

loses it

and all the security goes on high alert

elaine flips what she thought was the

master switch for the power

but only the stage light for the pageant

go out elaine takes the stage to try to

distract everyone from what louise is

doing

jane meets with louise under the ball

but somehow they're also right at the

mouth of the river

like the ball is immediately next to

where it

but it can't be because there's stores

in every direction and it's really far

from where water could be

but this seems like it's an actual place

yeah

like this conveyor belt is part of some

kind of facility

yeah elaine decides that she's going to

do a strip tease on the stage for the

pageant show

as they plug the vacuum into the ball

it's very clearly not working

it's not getting anything out of this

ball but we're

using our imagination here the guards

are tripping over each other to get to

the topless woman

and then they accidentally knock over

this giant

pole with lights on it which just

crushes the bubble

and money flies everywhere well it also

had the crazy lady

with the gun earlier on top of the pole

yeah because that lady

had climbed to the top of the pole to i

don't know what

turn on a light even though there was no

electricity well i think it was the

light for the ball

but she pointed it at the stage yeah but

then so she's this like

you know she's counterweighting this

whole thing over and she smashes into

the ball

yeah but since everything's going crazy

louise says we just need to leave with

what we've got so far and ties off the

two bags

uh louise stands in the canoe as they're

heading out of the river

and it tips over and louise can't swim

so jane has to rescue her as the money

floats away

but even though we reveal immediately

later that this water is only a foot

yeah they're standing up in it um

instead of putting

her clothes back on elaine wears a

curtain for the next 12 hours

yeah she wears a jane curtain uh until

she finds the other girls sitting on

this bank outside

where the where the they escaped with

the money

and a bag floats by while they're

arguing but

they've been sitting here for 12 hours

just

thinking about what went wrong yeah it

was night time and now it's daytime

so they just they got up on the shore

and they were like shouldn't we go home

shouldn't we go find our friend and tell

her what happened shouldn't we go

downstream and look for the bags of

money

why were those bags floating they were

tied off there's enough air in it i

guess so that seems like

the weight of all that money but either

way

while they're arguing about it a bag

floats by here and uh

louise decides she's gonna get it and

she almost drowns again

so one of them goes for the money and

one of them goes for louise

officer coleman comes to her house later

um and they've successfully retrieved

one bag so

uh elaine is upstairs just counting all

the money on her bed

and uh question yes is this all of the

money

or is this just elaine's money i thought

it was hers

i think it's her third okay which she

shouldn't have to count

because they should have counted it

already and then split it into thirds

right

but she's counting it here and he gets

to the door he's like hey i just wanted

to check up on you

see how you're doing i've been super

hard since that show you did yesterday

and he doesn't ask about like by the way

i couldn't help but notice your garage

door exploded

like that's kind of weird but instead

he's just like hey so we should have sex

right and she says well i don't i want

to

hang out with someone who's interested

in a date that's longer than 12 minutes

or something like that because she

doesn't just want to have sex with this

guy

and he says okay so what do you want me

to do and she's like how about date me

like a real person

here's my number and he goes out to the

squad car which has a phone in it

and he calls up to the house and asks

her out and she accepts for some reason

it's not clear why albert tells louise

that

the irs magically changed their mind

about the taxes even though they had the

money now to pay the taxes

yep doesn't make any sense but they're

in the clear

and as long as the store turns a profit

yeah so

is the implication here that she's just

going to use all this money that she got

to just

fake profits for the store i guess jane

and robert are apparently married now

it sounds like she bought the shop after

all and

he asks where she got the money and she

tells them the truth which of course he

doesn't believe

because it's not a very believable plot

and that's the end of the film

this was directed by robert shearer this

was his last feature credit

it's mostly tv work before that a lot of

fame series

star trek shows he did next gen deep

space nine

voyager the writer here was robert

kaufman

he did divorce american style freebie

and the bean a couple of dr goldfoot

movies

he also wrote the second happy hooker

movie goes to washington

and nothing personal also for american

international

it did feel a lot like nothing personal

i agree

the story was by leonora thuna this is

her only feature credit and she also has

a creator credit on the series

the good time girls susan saint james

was jane here

she has an uncredited role as mrs martha

kidd

in the cockeyed cowboys of calico county

she is back

in carbon copy next year which i know

we're all evaluating our 1981 reviews

have you watched the trailer for that

one yet carbon copy

i can't recall it's about george seagal

learning he has a son

and the son is played by the feature

film debut of denzel washington

yes i know it's the feature film debut

he's a spoiler alert i did not rank that

one

very well all right we'll see we'll see

what happens with that

and uh susan st james also appeared with

jane curtin as the leads of 122 episodes

of kate and ali

a show i had never heard of until i

looked that up

what years was that i don't know it was

85 through 89.

jane curtin was elaine this was her

first feature film credit

it's our second movie in a row with a

lead character directed by our friend

susannah fogle

because jane curtin played kate

mckinnon's mom in the spy who dumped me

oh that's awesome she was also dr mary

albright on third rock from the sun

she's in the the first three librarian

films with noah wiley i think there's

more than three

and then there's the show but i don't

think she's in anything beyond the third

movie

uh she was a weekend update anchor and

conehead on saturday night live and in

the coneheads movie

she wasn't a weekend update anchor in

the coneheads movie i don't think

uh jessica lange was louise she was

dwane in

the 76 king kong she's julie in tootsie

with dabney coleman she plays

older sandra bloom in big fish tamara

and titus

and lately she's in a lot of american

horror story stuff she also was in that

feud betty and joan where she played

joan crawford richard benjamin was

albert we had him earlier this year in

last married couple as marv cooper

oddly playing the similar kind of

character yeah very similar character

he's also peter martin in westworld

he'll be back later this year for

witches brew

and first family and he's a director of

a lot of films that start with m

like my favorite year money pit my

stepmother's

um eddie albert was max he played

oliver wendell douglas on green acres

and petticoat junction and also in one

episode of beverly hillbillies

um he's irving radovich from roman

holiday

and he'll be back as daggett and fooling

around later this year

uh he was also in john ford's seven

women

with sue lyon who was an alligator and

lolita

uh catherine damon played natalie she

has mostly tv credits

but she'll be back as gloria in the

first time

and then as gail bainbridge and she's

having a baby over the course of the 80s

dabney coleman was jack heitzel he's

franklin hart jr in 9-5 later this year

he also still has melvin and howard in

1980. we previously had him

in our last american international

picture nothing personal

and uh he's also going to appear in

tootsie war games

cloak and dagger and he was obviously mr

drysdale in the 93 beverly hillbillies

which uh we failed to mention when we

were going over

uh credits for cloris leachman where she

gets called granny

yeah that's another one classic the cast

of that movie is

perfect yeah it really is great fred

willard was robert

he's ed harkin in in both anchorman

films he

is shelby forthright in wally which is i

think is he the president or is he a

spokesperson for by and large

i think he's the owner of the ceo of by

and large he's also frank dunphy on

modern family

which i don't watch uh he's in a lot of

christopher guest movies

and and he's not funny in this movie

no not really which which is like fred

willard i usually

associate with being somewhat funny um

and he's currently

in pre-production on the new space force

series as a character named fred nerd

he has 311 credits on imdb

yeah he is prolific he works a lot yeah

it is a bummer though because he is so

funny and i feel like

this is a situation where the director

probably specifically was like

can we do that again but can we just get

a straight one from you fred because

it's like no no let him be funny he's

really funny art matrano oh sorry okay

i'll just say like uh richard benjamin

uh well he does stuff all over the place

yeah yeah it's like i was like this is

what i would expect from fred willard

yeah uh i really like richard benjamin a

lot yeah he he

he is a lot of fun he's hamming it up

but in the best ways yeah um

art matrana was the gas station

attendant he's mouser in the police

academy movies

he was also leonardo da vinci in history

of the world part one

so that's the second leonardo da vinci

that we've had after small circle

michael bell was tom uh he's

lots of hasbro voices in various

transformers and gi joe variations

he's also the voice of drew pickles and

chaz finster

in rugrats um including stuff that's

happening right now drew pickles is

obviously

tommy pickle's younger brother who has a

voice

when he's in the all-grown up version

and chas finster as chucky's father

he's also the voice of quacker jack in

the new ducktales series

uh sybil danning was charlotte well i

think he was the original

maybe he's involved jack wasn't he yeah

is it in the new one too yeah he's in

both he's in both

okay uh sybil danny was charlotte uh she

plays saint x-men

in battle beyond the stars from recent

screenwriter john sales

she's also queen laura in amazon women

on the moon uh

adriana in hercules and she will also

be back for the man with bogart's face

and night kill later this year

we're not gonna talk about the howling

two your sister's a werewolf is she in

that one

she is the sister she's the titular

sister werewolf

she's the titular sister who also shows

her chillers

oh good uh yeah she plays sterba

because i believe that's the foreign

yeah the foreign title is

sterba werewolf [ __ ] wonderful

uh garrett morris was the power and

light man this guy was great

he's obviously a fellow snl cast member

with jane curtin

he's captain or cruiser in the coneheads

movie also with jane curtin

and he was in the movie ant-man uh he

was a cab driver

when ant-man like hits the roof of his

car and he looks up and he notices this

weird little dent in the ceiling

um and this is because he was casting

this part because he was the first

person

to play ant-man ever on television or

film

because he was ant-man in an snl sketch

and they looked him up and they were

like has anyone played ant-man before oh

he was in an snl sketch and they were

like we need to get him to come in and

play a bit part in this movie

so uh he's in there byron morrow was

charlie goldring

um i'm not sure who that is who's

charlie goldring

anyway this was his last film credit and

he played the secretary of state

in colossus the forbidden project oh

yeah this movie's a bit of a mess the

the characters are all pretty insulting

and you're not really rooting for them

because they're all making terrible

decisions the whole time no the writing

in this movie was infuriating i think

that all of the women

were written so poorly they were a

terrible combination of

just completely inept and stereotypical

badly written women in movies it's just

it was just

hard to watch and even dabney coleman

can't save this stupid cop character

either

like the they don't make him dumb enough

in the regular conversations

to warrant all the really stupid [ __ ] he

does over the course of the whole movie

i i thought for sure one of these

characters was going to be brought in

on the caper yeah like i was like oh

like is

dabney coleman going to be like a really

like frustrated cop and they're going to

bring him in

and he's going to be part of it or he's

going to he's going to help them get

away with something

does tell her husband at the end how

she got the money but he thinks she's

lying yeah

and technically speaking dabney does let

them get away with things

yeah but he has no idea what their plane

is he's just like sure steal a vacuum i

don't give a [ __ ] if you're gonna give

me a hand job that's fine

i think the other thing that really

bothered me about this movie is i don't

think it knew

what it wanted to be yeah because it

wasn't a caper movie and honestly i

think if you cut a bunch of it out and

you leaned in a little bit more to the

idea that it was like a kooky caper it

might have been more entertaining but it

just

it wavered a lot on what it was trying

to be it focused a lot on the first

third

of just what why why these women's lives

were so difficult and why they need

money

well that's the other thing is that i

feel like they don't do a good enough

job to make it seem like

their shitty situation isn't their fault

because

about halfway through the movie i turned

to you and i said aside from the

antique store which isn't really a job

because she has no customers

do any of these three women have jobs i

don't think they do

one of them has two kids and she doesn't

have a job

she's living off of 200 a month for

child support but she does have a

boyfriend with a job

but she's not bringing in enough money

to you know pay for the house and keep

the kids

uh healthy and their teeth good um

and then the jane curtain character says

that she doesn't cook enough for her

husband

and that she doesn't that she spends too

much of his money shopping which implies

that it's not her money that she's

spending shopping

so she doesn't have a job either and

none of the three of them are looking at

getting a job that makes the money

as the answer to this problem so i feel

like

it's really hard for the audience to

sympathize with them when you're like

just get a job if you don't have any

money like like i don't have any money

but i don't want to work

either they tried to layer in a bunch of

stuff about inflation in here to try to

make it

i guess them feel more sympathetic in

terms of them having money problems

because at the beginning

jane's complaining that oh no uh you

know inflation was only

you know 11 instead of 13 and so i can

you know bread's only gonna be five

dollars a you know a loaf at the store

instead

and i get that it's like at that point

it's too it's

too much to go back and add a job for

each of these people

and show their shitty boss cheating them

out of money and that they deserve it

even more and that they're working

really hard

but just a line just some kind of a line

like

oh at the diner today they took all my

tips because

uh they haven't been having as many

customers lately or something like that

or just like just throw one little thing

in there that implies they're working

and getting ripped off because right now

it just seems like they refuse to get

jobs so they

robbed a shopping mall basically and

inflation

is everyone's problem right yeah because

you know even albert is saying

like you know you know medic medications

for these animals is

going up and i'm having to do

unnecessary surgeries

yeah on on pets in order to in order to

get

money to pay the bills yeah and that's

even the point of the money ball is that

they're talking about

infusing the the local community with

more money because they're trying to

bring down

the inflationary problems that the

entire economy is facing

but um but for some reason only these

three women deserve all the money in

this ball

but because of the craziness that went

on around it nobody even knows that this

money's missing

also there's still a bag of hundreds of

thousands of dollars floating down the

river so nobody knows that

it's missing and they said oh because it

was an accident

insurance covered all of the money that

went missing because

the crowd just went crazy and started

picking up the money when it's when the

ball smashed open and so

the insurance covered everything so

there's just no consequences in this

film right yeah

uh i i did like dabney coleman's uh

moment where he takes his hat off and

scoops up one of the bills into his hat

and puts it back on yeah i was like

okay that was kind of funny but it was

probably at the most like a fiver

yeah the insurance line of

all this money that that was stolen by

the people who's gonna be covered by

insurance is like

i don't know if yeah can you buy

insurance where you're like

hey we want insurance on cash

like we're going to get 240 000 of cash

and if it disappears can we have 240 000

of cash also we're gonna stick it in a

giant glass ball

around a whole bunch of people and just

expect everything to be

fine yeah also a woman got topless in a

public space

i didn't get arrested and didn't get

arrested after

robbing a hardware store and drinking

and driving and it's the same cop

witnessed all three crimes

like she she could be those are two of

those are felonies right

she could be in prison forever but she's

not gonna be

because she's keeping dabney happy

up or down jess uh that's a down

as much as i like uh jane curtin and i

like

i like the whole cast but i just uh i

couldn't get behind the writing in this

movie

yeah the i like every member of this

group i just wish that they had more to

do

although susan st james really isn't

bringing much to the table either

uh for one of the the you know the

center points of the film

jane curtin is very funny and you know

jessica lange is doing a lot of great

stuff and susan st james is

kind of a drag every time she's on

screen she really doesn't

doesn't provide much what about you yeah

i

i laughed one time otherwise i was just

like

not interested or there's just so many

unnecessary scenes

uh and i completely agree with jesse

with

like this should have been a cable movie

or

uh topical like yeah yeah

political statement yeah um where's this

going on the list richard

um i am putting this well you didn't say

i presume it's down for you oh i did say

down i thought oh sorry

yes no it doesn't mean it's down i'm

telling you

i'm telling you that you were

instructing me what my opinion is

um i'm gonna put this um just above

rough cut and just below the hollywood

nights

okay jess um

i think it's a little lower for me so

this does not make the windows threshold

for me

yeah i'm gonna put this below holy moses

and above don't answer the phone okay

that seems like blasphemy to me um i'm

gonna put this above

can't stop the music and just below the

private eyes

but i think that's about everything for

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when we'll be discussing oh heavenly dog

starring chevy chase

and benji yes that benji in a film imdb

describes like so a murdered detective

must avenge his murder

after he is reincarnated as a dog oh

dear

we leave you now with the trailer for oh

heavenly dog

chevy chase is benjamin browning a

struggling private eye

who's about to embark on the strangest

case of his career

what can i do for you

i want to buy protection for someone

and i know you'll be discreet but before

he can track down the clues

the witnesses the evidence or the

suspects

there's some good news and some bad news

the good news is only on friday he's

going to make a date

friday the bad news is he's going to be

late

now if you just sign here

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you're acknowledging that you are dead

and you agree to all the terms and

conditions thereof but

incredibly enough there's more news

final assessment

assignment is to go back and solve your

own murder

go back excuse me

wait a minute those are animals i'm not

going back as an animal and now

hello he's back maybe you remember me i

was killed here

somewhat shorter i need a clue but wiser

a pair of hands with 48 wild and

woolly hours to solve his own murder or

die again trying 20th century fox

presents

i'm sorry mr browning i didn't mean to

struggle

chevy chase why don't you stand up

i am standing up

jane seymour how about if i just call

you bj for short

you're asking for it oh my sharif come

here i'm sorry i gotta be running long

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mystery and forbidden love

i don't like being cute i don't like

being fluffy i want some hands

oh heavenly dog

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