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  • 1985
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1985
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary A minor league baseball player (Richard Pryor) has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.

Directed By: Walter Hill

Written By: George Barr McCutcheon, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris

  • 1985
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1985
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Brewster's Millions

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
37
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary A minor league baseball player (Richard Pryor) has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.

Directed By: Walter Hill

Written By: George Barr McCutcheon, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
37
8% Positive
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69% Mixed
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23% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
37
8% Positive
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69% Mixed
9 Reviews
23% Negative
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63
Pryor and director Walter Hill do a competent job collaborating on comic pace in Brewster's Millions. But the screenplay by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris isn't audacious enough to twist the ending and let Pryor's character grow. Brewster's Millions is a pleasant summer laugh, but it's not comedy that bites.
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60
A satisfying come-down by the director, who stays safely within, rather than pushes against comedy conventions.
By William Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
Except for two or three explosive moments, the film plods along to the expectable, heartwarming climax, never achieving the potential of a new star in a time-proven role. [27 May 1985]
By Bob Thomas FULL REVIEW
40
Brewster's Millions isn't bad so much as flat. And flat comedy has about the appeal of flat champagne.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW
40
Normally, this situation comedy would provide its own built-in laughs, but here the situations are dominated by Pryor's forced, manic behavior, which removes him from empathy and offers the subservient story nothing more than casual interest.
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30
But the script by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod mistakes busyness for funniness. They make Monty Brewster a fading minorleague pitcher. But we want screwballs, not curve balls. Watching the frantic Brewster try to spend 30 million bucks is more tiresome than hilarious. [3 June 1985, p.65]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
20
Dim, compromised, and dead on arrival.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
6.6
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8 Ratings
36% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
6.6
57% Positive
8 Ratings
36% Mixed
5 Ratings
7% Negative
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Production Company Universal Pictures, Davis Entertainment, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Silver Pictures
Release Date May 22, 1985
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline An American excess story.
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