The read
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes52%
Metacritic49/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
1,281 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard BenjaminDirector
- David GilerScreenplay
- Michel ColombierOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tom HanksWalter Fielding, Jr.
- Shelley LongAnna Crowley
- Alexander GodunovMax Beissart
- Maureen StapletonEstelle
- Joe MantegnaArt Shirk
- Philip BoscoCurly
- Josh MostelJack Schnittman
- Yakov SmirnoffShatov
- Carmine CaridiBrad Shirk
- Brian BackerEthan
- Billy LombardoBenny
- Mia DillonMarika
Stills
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Themes
rock starchaospricehousehome ownershipold houseabsurdhilariousambiguousamusedempathetic