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- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
Directed By: John Cassavetes, Andrew Bergman
Written By: Andrew Bergman
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Big Trouble
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Summary Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
Directed By: John Cassavetes, Andrew Bergman
Written By: Andrew Bergman
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
50% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Deliciously funny.
It still has several moments—most notably a completely offhanded kidnapping—when Cassavetes's inimitable off rhythms do strange and wonderful things to the conventionally written comedy. Big Trouble is just a footnote in the career of one of America's most innovative, unclassifiable filmmakers, but it's something to see.
It possesses high points you simply don't find in lesser if more consistently funny movies.
John Cassavetes has been making exquisitely personal films -- or agonizingly personal ones, depending on one's tastes -- for years now. Sometimes, they are intimate dramas (Faces, Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence). Sometimes, they are dark comedies in melodramatic dress (Gloria). And sometimes, as in the newly released Big Trouble, they are just a mess. [19 Apr 1986, p.D1]
Director Cassavetes here applies his remarkable talent for social observation in a light-comedy context and creates one of the strangest, and in many ways most frustrating, screen comedies in recent years.
These isolated pockets of comic invention are balanced by long stretches of general choppiness in editing and pacing. Shot by shot, the movie is crisply staged and photographed, but the gags don`t work and the timing`s off in much of the aborted fun.
Never hysterically funny but scattered with pleasingly OTT moments and throwaway lines, it looks as if Cassavetes merely wanted a) to prove he could make a blandly stylish commercial piece, and b) the cash.
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