A Fine Mess (1986)

Directed by

Blake Edwards

Genre

action film, slapstick, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends get mixed up in a criminal scheme and spend the movie running away from various pursuers. It is a slapstick chase comedy full of physical humor and misunderstandings.

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What happens

A Fine Mess is a 1986 American comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Ted Danson and Howie Mandel. The film was intended as a remake of Laurel & Hardy's classic short The Music Box and was to be semi-improvised in the same style as the director's earlier comedy The Party, but studio interference, poor previews and subsequent re-editing resulted in the film becoming a fully scripted chase comedy with very few of the original ideas for the film remaining intact. Writer/director Blake Edwards actually gave television interviews telling audiences to avoid the film. It received overwhelmingly negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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