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Brewster's Millions
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Release Date:
22 May 1985 (USA) more
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An American excess story. more
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A minor league baseball player has to waste $30m in 30 days in order to inherit $300m; however he's not allowed to tell anyone about the $300m deal. full summary | add synopsis
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Good Production, Especially Considering the Substance. more (40 total)

Cast

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Richard Pryor ... Montgomery Brewster

John Candy ... Spike Nolan
Lonette McKee ... Angela Drake

Stephen Collins ... Warren Cox

Jerry Orbach ... Charley Pegler
Pat Hingle ... Edward Roundfield

Tovah Feldshuh ... Marilyn

Hume Cronyn ... Rupert Horn

Joe Grifasi ... J.B. Donaldo

Peter Jason ... Chuck Fleming
David White ... George Granville
Jerome Dempsey ... Norris Baxter
David Wohl ... Eugene Provost
Ji-Tu Cumbuka ... Melvin
Milt Kogan ... Heller
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97 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The bar in which Montgomery and Spike start a brawl is called Torchy's, the same name of the bar Eddie Murphy shook down in director Walter Hill's 48 Hrs. (1982). The Torchy's waitress in this film who phones in the brawl to the police is played by Margot Rose, who appeared in "48 Hrs." as the girlfriend of a character who (we're told) used to tend bar at Torchy's. In yet another nod to Hill's 1982 box-office hit, the car driven by Brewster's personal photographer is a sky-blue Cadillac convertible, the same type of heap driven by Nick Nolte in that earlier film. more
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Errors in geography: The train that cuts through the infield of the Hackensack stadium says "The Pine Tree Route", a slogan for the Maine Central railroad. more
Quotes:
Monty Brewster: Why is it when there's trouble we're the ones that get into it. I mean, there's a bar full of people and we're the only ones in jail.
Spike Nolan: I don't think it's racial you know, because I'm in here with you.
Monty Brewster: That's comforting.
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Referenced in Great World of Sound (2007) more
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In the Nick of Time more

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Good Production, Especially Considering the Substance., 1 August 2002
Author: tfrizzell from United States

Richard Pryor stars as a minor-league baseball pitcher in New Jersey who gets an inheritance, but the inheritance has a large catch. Pryor will inherit $300 million in 30 days if he can spend $30 million in that time, but he must have nothing of value after that time period. A really smart idea that works due to the comedic talents of Pryor more than anything else. His uncanny ability to portray highly sympathetic characters is also very important here. John Candy shines as Pryor's best friend. A nice little film that toes the line on being something really special. It does not quite reach high levels, but it does come close and overall it is an entertaining and noble work. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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