The read
Audiences rate it 32 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes52%
Metacritic32/100
Audiences rate it 32 points higher than critics do.
1,176 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert KlaneScreenplay
- Ted KotcheffDirector
- Andy SummersOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Andrew McCarthyLarry Wilson
- Jonathan SilvermanRichard Parker
- Catherine Mary StewartGwen Saunders
- Terry KiserBernie Lomax
- Don CalfaPaulie, Vito's Hit Man
- Catherine ParksTina, Vito's Girl
- Eloise DeJoriaTawny
- Gregory SalataMarty
- Louis GiambalvoVito
- Ted KotcheffJack Parker
- Margaret HallSecretary
- Timothy PerezMugger
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Themes
beachbossbad bossmission of murderhousemale corpsemischievoushilariousbewilderedclichéfarcical