Big Trouble

Starring: Alan Arkin, Peter Falk Director: John Cassavetes Original UK Premiere: 1986 Dvd Release: 8th December, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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Big Trouble is a film based on the novel Big Trouble by Dave Barry. It was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld & featured a large cast including Tim Allen, Rene Russo & Dennis Farina. Like much of Barrys fiction, it follows a diverse group of people through a series of extremely strange situations against the backdrop of southern Florida. They have forty-five minutes to save the world. They need forty-six. Eliot Arnold has had some bad luck lately. He lost his job as a newspaper columnist after losing his temper with his editor. His wife cheated on him, leading to their divorce. The advertising agency he opened has only attracted a few lowlife clients. His teenage son Matt thinks hes a complete loser. He drives a Geo. Anna Herk has had better days herself. She has a close relationship with her daughter Jenny, but her husband Arthur Herk is insufferable & quite possibly insane. Shed leave him if it wouldnt mean dooming Jenny & herself to a life of poverty. Arthurs a bit on edge. Posters Of Big Trouble

The last film directed by John Cassavetes, Big Trouble reteamed some of the creators of the much funnier The In-laws. But despite another script by Andrew Bergman, & a cast that reunited Alan Arkin & Peter Falk, this comedy doesnt live up to its predecessor. A spoof of Double Indemnity, the film casts Arkin as a nervous insurance agent faced with huge college tuition bills for a trio of sons headed for Yale. To make extra money, he gets involved in a scheme with a woman trying to kill her husband . That the whole thing turns out to be an adventure in insurance fraud shouldnt come as a surprise. Despite an inconsistent script, the chemistry between Arkin & Falk can still produce the occasional laugh.

Peter Falk is an American actor. Best known for his role in the long-running TV series Columbo, in which he played the title role --a shabby, seemingly slow-witted police detective. Columbo inevitably solved his cases through close attention to tiny inconsistencies in a suspects story, hounding them until they confessed. Columbos signature technique was to exit the scene of an interview, invariably stopping in the doorway to ask just one more thing of a suspect, which always brought to light the key inconsistency. Falk is also loved for his brilliant performance in the high-brow comedy, The In-Laws. Falk played a crazed CIA agent who dupes his in-law, a New York City dentist, into joining a scheme to rob the US Treasury. He also gave a memorable turn opposite Gena Rowlands in director John Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence. His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three. Posters Of Peter Falk

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John Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter & director. Cassavetes created an American form of cinema verite with his innovative camera use, bleak outlook & emphasis on improvisation. Film critic Ray Carney called him the father of American independent film. Cassavetes was born in New York City to Greek immigrants. He grew up in Long Island & attended Colgate University before moving to the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts. On graduation in 1950, he continued acting in the theater. By 1953, he was doing small parts in films; he continued to play a James Dean -like juvenile delinquent throughout the 1950s. Cassavetes also acted on television, which was still finding its feet as a medium. His experience working within televisions budgetary & schedule limits influenced his later film production style. During this time he met & married actress Gena Rowlands, a fellow television actor. By 1956 Cassavetes had begun teaching method acting in workshops in New York City. An improvisation exercise in one workshop inspired the idea for his writing & directorial debut, Shadows. Posters Of Big Trouble

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