The Money Pit

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Melissa M @Lisey Jun 6 Tom Hanks plays a likable lawyer named walter. Shelley Long plays a struggling musician named anna. They are living in a posh Manhattan apartment owned by her ex. Unfortunately they have to vacate the premises. They then decide to search for their dream house. It starts out as a unrealistic dream. And turns into a realistic nightmare. They are duped into buying a house that seems too good to be true. However the house turns out to be a money pit. The Shirk Brothers are are satirical but accurate look at contractors. Who say that it will be a simple 2-week job but it turns into a 6-month fun-tasco. It's hard to pick one funny moment in this movie. The whole movie is hilarious from start to finish. It's one of the best movies of the '80s. If not one of the funniest. Like the big '80s the film is over the top & goes to extremes. But it's a movie that everybody can relate to we've all been in The money pit at one time or another. This is one movie you can Bank on. See more Allen G @RT45844975 Jun 6 If you don't think this is possibly one of the greatest comedies of all time, then you probably have more money than brains. Whenever I think I've seen it too many times to ever laugh at it again, it ALWAYS proves me wrong! It combines nostalgia, reality, and absurdity in the best way possible! See more Emb3rGamer66 T @Emb3r.G Dec 18 I always crack a laugh when I watch this movie, easily my #2 Favorite Movie (My Favorite is the Terminator) the Kitchen Scene is my favorite part of the movie, that and the stairs are out, great movie See more Traci F @Trace922 Dec 15 Sold! This movie taught me don't dive in to things too quickly and think you're getting a great deal when you're really getting a lemon. See more Julian B @Spursy153 Oct 27 A very underrated Steven Spielberg classic 80s movie full of laughs, great performances from Tom Hanks & Shelley Long. See more David F @dfulmer Jun 29 This was a mildly funny film about a couple who are getting kicked out of the apartment they’ve been living in and are forced to quickly buy a very large house to live in. The house looks great, stately, old, and sizable, but once they move in there are a variety of problems with it, both cosmetic and structural. There are laughs aplenty when showing all the things that can go wrong with a house that’s a “money pit” - stairs collapse, chimneys cave in, and the roof leaks in about a half dozen places that shoot jets of water straight down as though it is coming out of a garden hose. These scenes of housing disasters are often very funny. The story about the relationship between the couple that lives in the house is a little bit less entertaining, as they work through their trust issues involving the woman’s past boyfriend who is still in her life because she plays an instrument in his orchestra. The combination of romantic comedy and home renovation misadventures is an odd pairing but it kind of works. See more Read all reviews

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